Comment on Ask HN: Why are images used to indent comments?parentComments−blakeperdue17ySometimes 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.−deno17yIn 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.
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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.
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.