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by TAKEMYMONEY 1549 days ago
This site is HTML, replacing <div> with <table> wouldn't change that. Tabular data can still be plain text. It's just rendered in tables instead of divs and spans.

Plain text is good because it

1. Loads fast 2. Can be parsed easily

<table>s load just as fast, and can be parsed much faster by humans and computers alike.

Either don't use HTML and use plain text instead, or use it correctly. This is all costs of markup without any benefit. Bring accessibility in the mix (which we should always do) and it's a non-starter.

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> Either don't use HTML and use plain text instead, or use it correctly.

Says who? The owner of the website here owes us nothing.

I mean it as a constructive criticism, not a pull request. It's a cool project (enough that I wanted to see how it's built).
Personally, I love the site, and I'm glad it is the way it is: It looks and feels better than any plausible alternative. It sure seems like it has all of the benefits and only one of the drawbacks (vaguely inaccessible).

A person can just make something for their own enjoyment. It's not the end of the world.

The primary drawback is that it's not plain text, so it doesn't have the benefit that a plain text format would.