- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:13:03 -0800
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org Style" <www-style@w3.org>
On 2/19/12 10:09 PM, "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Brad Kemper wrote: > >>>> Allow a region to be styled with the multicol >>>> properties so that the multicol overflow mechanism, adding new >>>> columns to the right, can be used to see all the content. >>> >>> These proposed changes are good. >> >> While I totally agree that we should be able to turn regions into >> multicol, I find it hard to imagine a complex region layout ever >> looking good with extra columns growing out of its right side. > > Yes. It's better than just dropping the content, though. Or having one > very long (or very wide) element at the end. One very long element is exactly what you get with normal flow in continuous media, so it seems like a good solution for that case. Making the last region multicol works better in paged media. Thanks, Alan
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