>Liz wrote:
>> ... It seems wierd that someone would make a design
>> that anchors don't work in since anchors are so widely used. ...
It was an oversight missed by myself and the 20 or so people who
looked over the technique during its development - a situation
compounded by the at the time unremarked upon lack of consensus among
browsers on how to handle overflow:hidden and anchors.
That's life I'm afraid.
It was my bad that it took me an age to actually publish an update
about the problem...
Ingo wrote of another way of dealing with problem:
>But I admit this is not practical, and will break, too.
Actually I do have a solution of sorts for Mozilla/Firefox/Camino...
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/anotherequalheight
[Note that the url contains cssjunk - ie. it's a temporary likely to
disappear page so don't link to it - in fact please don't link to it
in any case for reasons I hope will be obvious]
The solution is based on using XBL attached via the -moz-binding property
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xbl/xbl.html
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:-moz-binding
Essentially the "equal height" stuff is overridden in Mozilla, an
explicit height applied to the containing element and the columns'
height is set to 100%.
Now it works as is, but I haven't had time to prettify or incorporate
back into the original article. Why? Well I'm still contemplating:
1. The validity of -moz-binding and how to deal with it
2. How to handle things if javascript is turned off since it wouldn't work then
3. How to make things as generic as possible, so as to require as
little tweaking of the XBL file as possible (and whether some of the
moz class redefinitions should live in the XBL or in the CSS)
4. What to do about future versions of Safari which will begin
conforming to the now standard overflow: hidden anchor behaviour (as
reported by Philippe Wittenbergh). I think it should be possible
since Safari allows for absolute positioning of generated content.
5. Rationalising and shrinking the whole OTL code down since it's got
a "bit" over complicated and I'm sure some of it is there purely as
voodoo which really isn't necessary.
Anyone with any brilliant ideas, do let me know.
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