Re: [css3-multicol] The purpose of multi-column layout?

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From: "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 2:50 PM
To: "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com>
Cc: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>; <www-style@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [css3-multicol] The purpose of multi-column layout?

> And although it's not the Web, the iBooks application for iPad:
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> It's definitely useful for e-reader applications.

I think that general UA will die on "War & Peace" [1]
trying to "columnize" it.

As for iBook pagination I have invented  <frame type="pager"> thing:
http://www.terrainformatica.com/2010/02/printing-support-in-sciter/
that suits better iBook cases as it require page numbers and
optionally interactive controls on pages, etc.

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Andrew Fedoniouk

http://terrainformatica.com