[thelist] Moving away from layout tables

[Steve Lewis]

Craig Saila wrote:
> Making them all inline (or better yet, switching to <span>) will create
> a staircase effect:
>  1
>   2
>    3
>     4
>      5
>       6
That seems non-intuitive when other inline tags, <em> for instance, do
not create a staircase effect.  Anyone have any insights about why this
is the case?

--Steve