- From: Andrew Michael Eberbach <ameberba@student.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:46:41 -0500 (EST)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: Gustav Svensson <gurra16@spray.se>, <www-style@w3.org>
Hi, I was thinking this would be possible with some clever use of margins but then again I could be wrong. > Other than CSS being designed for flowing documents (not user interfaces, but > _documents_) in which the need to achieve the sort of layout being described is Whoa. Isn't that a slight oversight? I mean when CSS was being done it wasn't anything new to use HTML as a user-interface. Form elements anyone? So tables are the way to go? Isn't that some kind of failure? I thought I've been reading about CSS being able to eliminate table hacks. Thanks, Andrew > > In a box model designed for user interfaces (eg any widget toolkit) this would > be trivial to accomplish. But CSS, as it stands, is simply the wrong tool for > this job. > > Boris > -- > "Vast quantities of ethyl alcohol (CH3CH2OH) have been > discovered near the center of our Galaxy; evidently our > Galaxy has also discovered that the best place to store > liquor is in the middle of the system!" > -- Frank Shu, "The Physical Universe" >
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