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Unfortunately comments don't nest nicely in elinks. Otherwise it's great.

That's because HN uses an image tag to do the nesting and apparently elinks ignores the width property on image tags.

Wondering how involved it would be to add a script to do that in elinks.

Awesome, thanks.

I'm quite disappointed that this is the case. I don't expect a crazy parallax motion-sickness inducing css3 but I do expect decent markup.

I was disappointed when you said they used images.

I was more disappointed when I looked at the source and realised it's nested tables.

For shame, HN. For shame.

If it bothers you submit a pull request that fixes it.

To where?

As far as I know, the current version of HN isn't open source.

Indeed it definitely isn't.

To elinks.

Comments nest in w3m, which is my favorite text web browser on the strength of its formatting. However I've never been able to log in with w3m.