“Design Graveyard § Interviews”, Gwern2010-10-01 (similar)⁠:

Meta page describing Gwern.net website design experiments and post-mortem analyses.

A particularly unsatisfying area of website formatting was interviews (and roundtables or panels or discussions in general). There is no accepted way to format interviews which can handle interviews in an easy-to-write way with clear depiction of topics & speaker transitions, and nice typography: approaches using paragraphs, tables, definition lists, and unordered lists all have flaws.

After using the conventional formatting of paragraph-separated speakers and experimenting with various alternatives over the years, we abandoned it for a custom approach.

Interviews are now formatted a two-level list of topics and then nested in that are speaker statements; these double-lists are parsed by JS to style speakers correctly and use CSS to create a 3-column layout which can be read vertically with minimal clutter.

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