- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:05:53 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Daniel Hale <dhale@pobox.com>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
> >> (if only css >> could accommodate multi-column layout....) ... > I suspect that true column-ing requires a certain amount of > intelligence on the part of the UA, which would expand and > contract the columns to fit the text. But what happens with a tiny > screen? What if it can't possibly fit the text you spec'ed into > the space? Maybe it should ignore the multi-columnar layout and > convert everything to a single column, thus using scroll space to > fit the text... or perhaps this has already been settled. We designed a CSS solution for this a while back, and maybe its getting timely to re-introduce it. It gives the flexible control you describe. One feature we haven't addressed though is allowing the author (or copy editor) to indicate which text can be left out when space is short, for example when you want to squeeze the text into a fixed space. -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> tel: +1 (617) 258 5741 fax: +1 (617) 258 5999 World Wide Web Consortium, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 url = http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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