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Why is HN wrapped in a Center tag?

#1
I read a lot of the comments here on a blackberry. Since the BB strips tables/css by default, all of the text appears centered on the device (very annoying). If HN could remove the tag that wraps everything and just use a centered wrapping div, I (and I'm sure others) would be very grateful. Thanks!!

Re: Why is HN wrapped in a Center tag?

#3
post #2

I had never looked but the HN styling is pretty ghetto.

There's been a bunch of debates on HN about a pragmatic, simplest-thing-that-works approach to HTML vs. proper xHTML/CSS. This post is a good example of why the latter (sometimes) matters.

Re: Why is HN wrapped in a Center tag?

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post #3
post #2

I had never looked but the HN styling is pretty ghetto.

There's been a bunch of debates on HN about a pragmatic, simplest-thing-that-works approach to HTML vs. proper xHTML/CSS. This post is a good example of why the latter (sometimes) matters.

For the most part I'm entirely indifferent to the debate, but using a deprecated html tag when the requisite html/cs is trivial seems silly.

Re: Why is HN wrapped in a Center tag?

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post #3
post #2

I had never looked but the HN styling is pretty ghetto.

There's been a bunch of debates on HN about a pragmatic, simplest-thing-that-works approach to HTML vs. proper xHTML/CSS. This post is a good example of why the latter (sometimes) matters.

I should have guessed it had been discussed ad nauseam.

Calling it pragmatic seems ironic though, but I guess that depends on how familiar the builders are with CSS.

(edit: that sounds a bit more "internet-nerd-being-overly-dramatic-about-stupid-things" than I meant it to)