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Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

#1

Post by __herson__ »

Hello there.

First of all, I found Hacker News a really great and intelligent site, since I knew it is my primary source of news, I spend more time reading articles here than every other site, but I don't really comment to much.

My question is when will Hacker News improve their HTML, I see that there is no doctype definition and comment treads are a bunch of tables and even font tags.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want an interactive site full of ajax requests and infinite scroll or something, I just want to know if there is the possibility to improve a little more the site, I use the Clearly extension for Chrome http://bit.ly/PS9WCJ to read better the comments, but is kind of annoying doing it all the time.

So, what you think about my question?

Re: Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

#3

Post by __herson__ »

pg wrote: post #2

When the HTML is the most important thing to work on.

Ok, I know HTML is not the most important thing on the site, but that kind of thoughts only leads to procrastination, because there will always be issues on other stuffs like databases and security, but it would be nice to HN pays a little of atention to this kind of stuff.

Re: Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

#4

Post by redegg »

__herson__ wrote: post #3
pg wrote: post #2

When the HTML is the most important thing to work on.

Ok, I know HTML is not the most important thing on the site, but that kind of thoughts only leads to procrastination, because there will always be issues on other stuffs like databases and security, but it would be nice to HN pays a little of atention to this kind of stuff.

I'm not sure if you're wanting the appearance of HN to improve or update the markup to the latest hip-HTML5 tags.

The latter is a waste of time.

Re: Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

#5

Post by dwj »

redegg wrote: post #4
__herson__ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, I know HTML is not the most important thing on the site, but that kind of thoughts only leads to procrastination, because there will always be issues on other stuffs like databases and security, but it would be nice to HN pays a little of atention to this kind of stuff.

I'm not sure if you're wanting the appearance of HN to improve or update the markup to the latest hip-HTML5 tags. The latter is a waste of time.

Who cares if the html is crufty as long as it works. I use table layouts quite often, and if you look at the source of stackoverflow they use tables too.

What I would like to see are a few functionality tweaks to make HN more useful. The main ones that come to mind are: increasing the timeout before you get an 'unknown or expired link' and optionally emailing you when someone replies to one of your comments.

Re: Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

#9

Post by pg »

__herson__ wrote: post #3
pg wrote: post #2

When the HTML is the most important thing to work on.

Ok, I know HTML is not the most important thing on the site, but that kind of thoughts only leads to procrastination, because there will always be issues on other stuffs like databases and security, but it would be nice to HN pays a little of atention to this kind of stuff.

Focusing on the most important problems is not procrastination; in fact it is the opposite of procrastination.
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