On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:36:05 -0400, Tim Climis <tcli...@exchange.iu.edu> wrote:
>On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:26:19 am Jeff Zeitlin wrote: >> I'm reluctant to do major hacking on the HTML; I'd prefer to stick to >> just using CSS to do this. Am I asking for too much at this point? If >> not, how do I do it? >That depends. Are you willing to use CSS3 properties which are not supported >in all browsers yet? If you are, then CSS can help you. >Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/ >and usage: http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/ >I haven't tried it in a print stylesheet, but I have used it on actual pages >and it works reasonably well. I have no particular objection to using CSS3; the question then becomes how well these particular properties are supported. According to http://caniuse.com ("When Can I Use..."), neither Presto nor Trident support them at the present time, and it is unknown whether the next version of either will support it. With only Gecko and Webkit supporting it, I suspect that the overall support level (in terms of number of visitors) is going to be under - possibly well under - 50%, which I would find ... unsatisfactory. I'll experiment with this, though, and see how well it works in Gecko and Webkit. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://come.to/freelancetraveller http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2009. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: CyberNET Web Hosting (http://www.cyberwebhosting.net) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com) ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
