- From: <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:30:34 -0800
- To: bzbarsky@MIT.EDU, ernestcline@mindspring.com
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> > Could you give a reference to that blog entry? > > Sure thing. <http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1070385285&count=1> > > Note that that's what kicked off this thread, by the way.... (if you > look at Sandy's original post at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Dec/0015.html). > > No, the blog entry in fact begs for people to come up with a > decent way > of supporting this, after listing the technical reasons why it's not > supported at the moment. > > -Boris May I attempt to summarize the situation, based on my understanding? Authors would like to be able to style a column using CSS Currently CSS does not support this due to parsing tree considerations IE supports this in a standards-unfriendly way Other browsers (such as Mozilla) will not follow IE's path but will stay true to the standards If anyone can come up with a sensible way to have CSS support this, the working group is open to suggestions Is all this correct? If so, I will do my utmost to come up with a constructive suggestion. I believe I have a good handle on the concerns of the working group, the Mozilla developers, and the HTML/CSS authors. If I come up with something I'll let you know - if I don't, I probably won't be the first to fail to find a solution to this rather intriguing problem ;) Matthew van Eerde Software Engineer Hispanic Business Inc. HireDiversity.com 805.964.4554 x902 Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com http://www.hispanicbusiness.com http://www.hirediversity.com
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