Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2006-01-01 Thread John W. Kennedy
Xah Lee wrote: > 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. No, this is an indication of what happens to an in

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Harlan Messinger
[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

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 t

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Winter
On 30/12/2005 16:45, Xah Lee wrote: [Follow-ups trimmed to c.i.w.a.stylesheets] [snip] > A proposed solution is in CSS3 “Multi-column layout”, drafted in > 2001 but not yet in any mainstream browsers as of 2005-12. Quite rightly so, in my opinion. The Multi-column layout module is currently a

Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Xah Lee
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 just

Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Xah Lee
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 just