I see you put my desired source order, thanks! The only issue is the spacing between the header parts needs to be equal (this is the most important requirement).
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva < css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Scott, > As Gunlaug and Tim pointed out there are some issues for a solid solution > for the problem. > But, just for studies purposes have a look at a test case hosted at: > http://www.maujor.com/temp/css-d/fluid-header.html > May be you can find a more consistent solution. > Regards > Maurício Samy Silva > > -----Mensagem Original----- De: "Scott Mueller" <sc...@appletree.com> > Para: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <gunla...@c2i.net> > Cc: <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> > Enviada em: domingo, 22 de março de 2009 21:38 > Assunto: Re: [css-d] 3 columns of text, but MINIMAL wrapping, possible? > > > > Hi Gunlaug, thank you for your quick response. Sounds like I'm best off > using a table for my layout as painful as that sounds after reading 3 books > properly explaining how wrong doing so is... > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <gunla...@c2i.net> wrote: > > Scott Mueller wrote: >> >> The difficult part is that I want these columns to NOT wrap as much as >> >>> possible, spread across the width of the browser window and have equal >>> amounts of whitespace between. >>> >>> >> I know there's a display: table declaration, but I understand no IE >> >>> browsers pay attention to it... maybe there's an IE hack for this? >>> >>> >> IE8 has proper support for CSS table, and older IE versions can be >> "tricked"... >> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_11h.html> >> >> However, problems arise when one wants source-ordering, table behavior >> and "old IE trickery" all at once in a self-adjusting layout. Neither >> HTML table nor CSS table permits real source-ordering, so you'll >> probably end up with a complex solution to a small problem. I don't >> think it's worth it for anything but "proof of concept" cases. >> >> In real life I would forget source-ordering, and use a regular HTML >> table for a case like yours, to achieve optimal fluidity without >> premature wrapping, while avoiding problems with older IE versions' lack >> of CSS table support. >> >> You also have to take into account that text can/will be resized, which >> in itself will complicate things enough if your case is supposed to work >> across browser-land and various end-user options. >> >> regards >> Georg >> -- >> http://www.gunlaug.no >> >> > > > -- > Scott Mueller > http://www.appletree.com > AppleTree - Solve the Puzzle > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Scott Mueller http://www.appletree.com AppleTree - Solve the Puzzle ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
