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Simon Elvery
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Simon Elvery writes sw'as, a personal blog at elvery.net about data, web and writing. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Simon Elvery's pages cover pure-CSS responsive table techniques, including the 'no more tables' data-attribute approach and a demo of several ways to make tables responsive.
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My name is Simon Elvery. I tell stories on the web.
What Hacker News says?
They didn't publish any code that is non-trivial to implement (and all but 1 line of code is specific to their actual data and styling), so there wouldn't be any license to worry about. This technique has also been published before ( http://elvery.net/demo/responsive-tables/#no-more-tables ), so you're allowed to use the technique just as much as they are ;-)
Comment linking /demo/responsive-tables/
on “Responsive Tables in Pure CSS”Submitted The list cycle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYup, though the different way to do it with data- attributes and no content in the stylesheet was also written about here [1] in 2012, and demo'd here [2] at the bottom of the page in the "No more tables" example. We've been using this same technique in several projects where it seemed appropriate for the past few years and have been loving it. [1] https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-table-roundup/ [2] http://elv…
Comment linking /demo/responsive-tables/
on “Responsive Tables in Pure CSS”Submitted Visualising Google Suggest - WDYS V2 cross locale comparisons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat looks somehow broken. What device are you using? In Firefox, if I make the window smaller, and on my smartphone they look identical. They just hide the Bitcoin and Ethereum columns. For a few ways on how to do responsive tables, have a look at this page https://elvery.net/demo/responsive-tables/ I like the "no more tables" approach.
Comment linking /demo/responsive-tables/
on “Flippening Watch (Ethereum has almost overtaken Bitcoin in every metric)”Submitted How should I manage my data library? as a story · 1 points
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