Sometimes a small rendering performance hit is worth avoiding the development he... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		blakeperdue on Aug 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why are images used to indent comments? 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.

deno on Aug 6, 2009 [–]

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.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact