[followups to comp.infosystems.www.authoring stylesheets, since that's the only newsgroup the OP addressed where this is relevant (LISP?? what was he thinking?]
Xah Lee wrote: > Sometimes you want your text to flow into multiple columns, as in > newspaper's layout. However, as of 2005-12 this is not yet possible. > One can make-do by hard-coding it into HTML TABLE using multiple > columns. It is a pain because when you change your text, you have to > manually cut and paste to justify each and every columns by > trial-n-error. It's also pointless since that balances the text only in *your* browser, using your settings. It will look unbalanced in other people's browsers. > > A proposed solution is in CSS3 “Multi-column layout”, drafted in > 2001 but not yet in any mainstream browsers as of 2005-12. See > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/ > > With all the whizbang of styles and features in CSS2, a basic, > necessary, functional layout feature as multi-columns is not there yet. > This is a indication of the fatuousness of the IT industry's > technologies and its people. It isn't either basic or (obviously, since the world is still turning after all these years without it) necessary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
