Re: [css3-multicol] minimizing scroll complexity of multiple multi-column blocks

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Myk Melez <myk@mozilla.org> wrote:

>
> fantasai wrote:
>
>> Nesting is more how you'd implement it: you need all the controls you have
>> for horizontal columns to do this "rows" idea. You want control over the
>> gap and rules and the "column width" (row height). You don't want to
>> control
>> the height of these rows with the 'height' property: that would end the
>> element and cause the next row to overflow the box (overlapping subsequent
>> content, etc).
>>
> Nesting is fine with me if it accomplishes the goal.  I'm just looking for
> a way to make columns more useful.  How complicated would it be to extend
> the current implementation to support this functionality?
>

Not that hard in Gecko. But I'm not convinced that fantasai's suggestion is
the way to go.

Rob
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