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I thought the same, no way :) But, it makes a point. If nobody notices any side-effects of a bad design, is it still a bad design?

The text-browser point made by the OP is the first that ran into this however most text browsers don't render the current 'best practice' (using CSS classes with margins) correctly either.

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> If nobody notices any side-effects of a bad design

Lots of people notice, like OP and anyone using assistive technologies. So by your logic, it is bad design.

Lists should be marked up as lists, tabular data marked up as tables. We ended this debate in...1996?

Yeah I wonder how this affects assistive technologies.

> current 'best practice' (using CSS classes with margins)

If comments are nested unordered lists, why isn't the best practice a bunch of ul and li tags styled with CSS?

Good point!

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