Ask HN: Why is HN HTML laid out in tables?

15 points

15 years ago

Hacker News is certainly not HTML5 friendly. Heck it doesn't even validate in HTML4 http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

<body><center><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="85%" bgcolor=#f6f6ef><tr><td bgcolor=#ff6600><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" style="padding:2px"><tr><td style="width:18px;padding-right:4px"><a href="http://ycombinator.com"><img src="http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif" width=18 height=18 style="border:1px #ffffff solid;"></img></a></td><td style="line-height:12pt; height:10px;"><span class="pagetop"><b><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/news">Hacker News</a></b><img src="http://ycombinator.com/images/s.gif" height=1 width=10><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/newest">new</a> | <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments">comments</a> | <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/ask">ask</a> | <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs">jobs</a> | <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submit">submit</a> | <font color=#ffffff>joeybaker's comments</font></span></td><td style="text-align:right;padding-right:4px;"><span class="pagetop"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=0uLs1HxN7c">login</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="height:10px"></tr><tr><td><tr><td><table border=0><tr><td> …………

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