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Re:Why Hacker news uses tables? by alextgordon on Sunday November 28, 2010 @01:02PM (#1947747)
How is a table with one column not meaningful? The meaning is obvious: it's a list.

That HTML has specialist elements for lists is nice, but I don't see how that implies that a table with one column isn't also appropriate for a list.

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Re:Why Hacker news uses tables? by karanbhangui on Sunday November 28, 2010 @06:16PM (#1948692)
A table with one column may very well be appropriate, however that's not the case here. A table has been used for layout. You will notice the up-vote icon has its own cell for example. Not to mention, various deprecated style-related tags like center are used as well.
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