Hi guys

Sorry this is a WE05 specific question...

In Eric Meyer's presentation at WE05, he talked through the decision-making 
process 
of constructing AListApart. It was a good presentation, but lost me at one 
point.

The challenge was:
* three columns of content
* no guarantee which would be longer
* vertical lines between them
* a footer that spanned the full width of the screen

As part of the decision, he was discussing whether he would use absolute 
positioning 
or floats for the columns. I remember him saying that he couldn't use absolute 
positioning because he wouldn't know which column was longest.

This is where I lost the point... I understand this is hard because you don't 
know which 
column to use as a reference for the footer positioning. But couldn't you wrap 
the three 
columns in an relatively positioned div and position the footer relative the 
the whole 
thing? Is the problem just that he didn't want to mess the markup with an 
irrelevant 
div?

I didn't want to ask him about something so trivial when I met him later, so 
talked 
about children instead...

Thanks

Donna


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