- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:19:15 +0200
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Christoph Päper:
> I firmly believe some people will not be satisfied with the options
> to style columns that are offered by the current draft.
For sure. That's a truism ;)
> I wonder whether it would make sense (in level 4) to introduce
> either pseudo-classes to target columns or new properties,
> ‘column-border’ etc., where ‘column-rule’ becomes a shorthand:
>
> :column {border-left: <column-rule>; border-right: <column-rule>;}
> :first-column {border-left: none;}
> :last-column {border-right: none;}
Perhaps. I can see a need for 'border-clip' on column rules:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css4-background/
The multicol draft has been in development for more than a decade:
http://www.w3.org/1999/06/WD-css3-multicol-19990623
So, we should also be able to look a decade ahead :)
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:20:02 UTC