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Re:Ask HN: Why are images used to indent comments? by blakeperdue on Thursday August 06, 2009 @01:37PM (#745968)
Sometimes a small rendering performance hit is worth avoiding the development headache of getting multi-column divs to display properly across browsers.

Tables can still be useful when holding short content that has lots of columns.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are images used to indent comments? by deno on Thursday August 06, 2009 @05:00PM (#746387)
In the world without Internet Explorer all you need is CSS3 column-count: N; property.

Still, using tables for any kind of formatting looks just plain bad. If you're lazy there are CSS frameworks.

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