Re:Why Hacker news uses tables?
by nailer on Sunday November 28, 2010 @06:11AM
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I don't think anyone is saying using tables at all is a bad thing, just using them inappropriately.
gmail is a table - columns are email properties, rows are documents.
HN is a list.
I believe PG argues a list is a smaller, single column version of table, and that nobody should care about the output of a compiler anyway.
I'd argue that the HN header is a cell, so are the links at the bottom of the page, and this is clearly a case of tables for layout. Also there may be things that parse the page for different audiences, who expect lists to be used for lists and tables to be used for multi columned data. Also, it's not hard to fix.
Reading the previous discussion, things got quite nasty last time, so I won't fan the flames and say anything more.
gmail is a table - columns are email properties, rows are documents.
HN is a list.
I believe PG argues a list is a smaller, single column version of table, and that nobody should care about the output of a compiler anyway.
I'd argue that the HN header is a cell, so are the links at the bottom of the page, and this is clearly a case of tables for layout. Also there may be things that parse the page for different audiences, who expect lists to be used for lists and tables to be used for multi columned data. Also, it's not hard to fix.
Reading the previous discussion, things got quite nasty last time, so I won't fan the flames and say anything more.