Ask HN: When will Hacker News improve their HTML?

8 points by __herson__ 13 years ago | 16 comments

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?

pg 13 years ago |

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

whichdan 13 years ago | |

Atleast consider replacing the up/down arrows with unicode ones?

__herson__ 13 years ago | |

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.

pg 13 years ago | | |

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

redegg 13 years ago | | |

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.

devb0x 13 years ago | |

Agreed, it renders fine.

Randgalt 13 years ago |

Hopefully after they fix "unknown or expired link" when clicking the More link.

huhtenberg 13 years ago | |

How do you expect this to be fixed exactly? Say, you opened to front page, left it open for few hours and then clicked "More". What do you expect to see there?

muellerwolfram 13 years ago | | |

the second page, whatever second page there is at this time. this would mean that it might shows me stuff that I read earlier, but isn't that better then getting an error page?

jameswyse 13 years ago | | |

It sometimes does it when you've been writing a long comment and thus had the page open for a while.

Sometimes chrome even nukes the form when I press back :/

Goranek 13 years ago | |

only thing that bothers me

hyperbovine 13 years ago |

I don't understand what this would accomplish, besides giving the validator.w3.org crowd warm fuzzies.