David Woolley wrote: > ... Moreover, it is painful to use because it also implies > the need to scroll the content continually from side to side, which is > even more frustrating than having to scroll two column PDFs vertically > backwards and forwards. Off topic, but, I was curious that no-one paid any attention to my thoughts on CSS3 columns, not even the view that columns of that variety should be restricted to paged media only. I am glad that someone else finds vertical text columns on a VDU to be painful. I don't think that the present column use on the Web is in any way related to the CSS3 columns proposal. CSS3 columns is a way to represent typesetting columns, which is good for paged media to keep line length down and in doing so, provide a neat way to fit multiple articles onto a single side of paper (not something the Web should be doing at all with paged media). Two-dimensional space division, something sorely lacking in CSS up to 3 (Cf Advanced Layout Module) is wholly unrelated and I don't want to see it connected with columns for line length. Even when it comes to line length, the idea of using columns on a VDU is debatable.Received on Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:12:00 GMT
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