- From: Jarno Suni <mrlynx@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:18:56 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
I think "column-count: auto" is a promising option to show same web content in viewports of different sizes. To ensure that user never has to scroll up for next column, I think one way is to define a new paged media type for computer screens (and possibly separate one for handheld devices). The size of a page would have to adapt to the size of viewport automatically. Maximum length (or height) of a column would be determined by the available vertical space in viewport, but the last column might continue in the next page, of course. Programmer or user would specify the preferred column width for easy reading; ideally, the column width would depend on font size, I think. Some coulums could be specified as navigation bars that would be visible permanently or could be hidden if more space was needed to show the main content. There should be a way to make the navigation bars visible promptly, if they are hidden. Do you think this make sense and could be implemented in CSS and browsers? Btw. I think it would be nice, if browsers would let you adjust viewport width for each tab individually. That way you could read even raw web pages using convenient column width. (I have posted Usenet message <zgjfh.382$mW4.199@read3.inet.fi> about this.) -- Homepage http://www.iki.fi/jarno.suni/
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