GNU bug report logs - #38113
26.3; eww does not indent text correctly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kishor Datar <kishordatar.tech <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38113: 26.3; eww does not indent text correctly
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:15:24 +0100

Kishor Datar <kishordatar.tech <at> 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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