- From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:58:54 +0100
- To: site-comments@w3.org
This is some feedback giving my experience with that three column layout. I have tried Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.2.1, IE6, Opera 7 beta, all on Win XP. I usually have browser windows sized at an external width of 800 pixels but with Netscape 7 or Mozilla I make heavy use of the sidebar panel resulting in the content area having a width of about 620 pixels. This with both Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.2.1 results in the link with text Internationalization being cut off, you can read Internationalizati. This caused me to try to check rendering when the content area is even smaller, and indeed when you resize the window to a smaller width Mozilla/NN7 keep the three column but content in the left column is cut off. When I check the same with IE6 it behaves much differently, it assures that the content in columns is visible but drops the three column layout, e.g. at a content are width of 566 it renders the left and middle column side by side but the right column is rendered below the other two. If you further reduce the width then IE moves the middle column below the left, keeping the left column content visible (e.g Internationalization is not cut off). Opera 7 beta exhibits the same behaviour as Mozilla, even with a very low width of the content area the three columns are rendered side by side but the content in the left column is cut off. Thus at least with Mozilla and Opera it seems that the choosen CSS column layout has its shortcomings as content is cut off in the left column if the content area width is low. I am also wondering which browser is doing the right thing here, Mozilla and Opera keeping the three columns side by side but cutting off content or IE6. Martin -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Received on Friday, 6 December 2002 12:36:47 UTC