One of the things I've been thinking about recently and would like to
experiment with post-FF4 is paginated web page layout. Especially for text
documents (or docs which can be turned into mainly text using an extension
such as Readability), I'd really like to be able to read these a page at a
time, and use standard swiping motions to turn pages.
This mode would hopefully be more flexible than a printed view: in
particular, images, tables, etc which don't fit on a page would enlarge the
page and be scrollable.
I had mentioned this a while back on my blog
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2008-10-28/paginate-the-web/
bz mentioned on IRC that I might be looking for some hybrid of column layout
and printing page layout: I've done some basic experiments before with
turning on page-width columns by default and then adding UI to flip pages,
but I'm pretty sure in order to get good results I need help from layout itself.
See e.g. http://office.smedbergs.us/pagination/
* I can't figure out how to make the root scrollbar go away, but continue
allowing the page to be wider than the screen.
* The complicated stuff about floats/images which are larger than a single
column width would require lots of scripted hand-tweaking, and I don't think
it's possible to tweak individual column widths.
* Ideally I'd like to be able to have CSS columns within the page itself.
In any case, what I'm looking for at some point soon is where I should be
looking for a way to make pagination and/or column code do what I want, at
first on an opt-in basis triggered by an extension.
--BDS
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