bmacho 16 hours ago

Article actually argues/states that a lot of the times not closing elements is more readable. It mentions tables without a concrete example, but I think e.g.

  <table>
    <tr> <td> A1 <td> B1 <td> C1
    <tr> <td> A2 <td> B2 <td> C2
    <tr> <td> A3 <td> B3 <td> C3
  </table>
is valid and reads better than if the row and data elements were closed (and on separate rows because it would be too much noise otherwise) (of course the whitespaces are different, if they matter for some reason). For a 3x3 table 5 lines vs ~15 lines.
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  • hnlmorg 15 hours ago

    I don’t think tables are human readable in any machine readable format, not even markdown.

    The problem is when you have long cells that you’d normally word wrap inside the cell, everything else ends up misaligned in your markup language. Or when you need to add styling to text in a cell, suddenly it’s unreadable again. Or when there’s more than a small few number of columns thus causing each row to word wrap inside your IDE, etc

    I think it makes far more sense to just acknowledge that tables are going to ugly, compose them elsewhere, and then export them to your markup language following that language’s specification strictly.

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