On 29/07/10 7:07 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
* I can't figure out how to make the root scrollbar go away, but continue allowing the page to be wider than the screen.
overflow:hidden doesn't work?
* 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.
Yes, that's a tough one.
* Ideally I'd like to be able to have CSS columns within the page itself.
Nested columns should work already.
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.
One idea that's been kicked around in www-style before is a new overflow value, "overflow-y: paginate". The idea is that it inserts vertical breaks and changes the behavior of scrollbars (and related scrolling mechanisms) so that scrolling always happens a "page" at a time. This could include hiding the vertical scrollbar or making it look and feel completely different (e.g. it would be cool to be able to add a page thumbnail strip). This would be relatively simple to implement by adapting the columns code to place the columns vertically instead of horizontally.
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