- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:33:39 -0800
- To: <mseaton@pobox.com>, <lee@sq.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Michael Seaton wrote:
> If the column setting applies to the entire document, then the
> obvious solution is to scroll *horizontally*, rather than
> vertically. i.e., each column would span the height of the
> viewing region, and the reader would *pan* across the document
> if it were to end up being too wide to display all at once.
This works. Then columnized elements within the document would flow to
the bottom of each document column and begin again in columns at the
top of the next document column, as in:
+----------------------------------+
^ | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
| | xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxx |
| | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx | Columns flow
| | xxxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx | horizontally
| | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
| | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
| | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
v | xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
+--**************######***********-+
Page spans ^
height of |
viewing Horizontal scroll bar
region
David Perrell
Received on Thursday, 31 October 1996 11:36:13 UTC