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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by ams6110 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:19AM (#16158741)
You can see the indentation if you use w3m. HN uses tables to structure the comment hierarchy, and the w3m browser does a pretty great job rendering tables.
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by kuschku on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:56PM (#16160273)
It'd be much nicer if HN used nested lists (without icon) for comment structuring. That'd also work fine in many more textmode browsers.
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by sedachv on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:15PM (#16162675)
w3m sets the column width for the HN nested table spacer all to one value, so you visually only get two levels on nesting. Here is a screenshot of this thread as rendered by w3m:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rZ1yOj55fvQqtWWbOnoSTpvCgx...

w3m table rendering is based on a heuristic algorithm and fails in some cases. See the "Table rendering algorithm in w3m" section in:

http://w3m.sourceforge.net/STORY

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