bug#38113: 26.3; eww does not indent text correctly

bug#38113: 26.3; eww does not indent text correctly

[Kishor Datar]

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eww does not indent content correctly. E.g. on the following
page, subsequent comments after the first nested comment align
at the same level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21473259

w3m or a web browser render the comments appropriately.



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bug#38113: 26.3; eww does not indent text correctly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Kishor Datar <kishordatar.tech@gmail.com> writes:

> eww does not indent content correctly. E.g. on the following
> page, subsequent comments after the first nested comment align
> at the same level.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21473259
>
> w3m or a web browser render the comments appropriately.

Hacker News uses tables with <img width="150px;"> (etc) in the first
<td> to do the indentation.  eww doesn't support showing images inline
in tables (for other reasons), so you don't get the indentation either.

So this is something that probably won't be fixed, and I'm closing the
bug report.

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