Re: [css3-multicol] column overflow

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> So here's a completely different proposal: overflow-mode:paginate.
>
> The idea: if an element has overflow-mode:paginate and would have a
> scrollbar in the block-progression-direction, instead of a regular scrollbar
> presentation, paginate the content into individual "pagelets" and show page
> navigation UI instead of the block-progression-direction scrollbar.
>
> This has several advantages. The biggest advantage I can see is that you
> could apply it to the root of most any page, including the standard "header
> + sidebars + central column of multiple article" layout that's ubiquitous,
> and in principle it would give you great results. Your engine would have to
> make sure that columns flow properly from page to page of course, but Gecko,
> at least, does that. You could also apply it to a single element with
> columns and get good results. There is no issue about spacing or styling
> individual column sets, because only one is visible at a time.
>
> The biggest disadvantage that I can see is that there is then no way for
> the user to view content from different horizontal column sets at the same
> time.
>

Oh, we could fix that by supporting UI to offer a "print preview"-like mode
where you can scroll continuously between pages.

Rob
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