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They're using JavaScript onmouseover to show spoilers which can be accomplished in straight CSS2. I assume that's for IE compatibility. They're also still using <br/> tags in post comments, but I assume that's because it's easier to write a nl2br converter than to intelligently parse comments with more than two newlines into semantically-correct paragraphs.

I would have thought 4chan's thread format perfect to use the new <article>, <header>, and <footer> tags.

Considering that we're talking about 4chan, this might count as heavy abuse of the "article" tag…

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