Comments on: CSS3 Columns loves me some Gutenberg 2.0

By: Ben Ward

Ben Ward — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:21:12 +0000

Chris, as you rightly point out CSS Columns is indeed akin to newspaper columns and may or may not prove to be useful, depending on how people handle the need to scroll up and down to read content. The part where you need slight correction is that these CSS Columns are not designed for â€˜column layoutâ€™ as we used to do with tables, but are an entirely new concept for rendering flowing text. What you're really looking for as regards finally killing the concept of tables for layout is the CSS Advanced Layout module. That is the piece of CSS3 for grids and sidebars and content-order-independence and so on.

By: Chris Casciano

Chris Casciano — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:14:27 +0000

Lists are about the only content that I can see *really* working in columns on the web and why I’ll be cheering this module when (if) it gets implemented to the point of being. Floating lists of “short” items and hoping they line up properly or splitting said list into 2 lists just to get the multiple columns display is one of the more hacky things I still find myself doing on occasion.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:59:56 +0000

Exactly.

By: Brad Neuberg

Brad Neuberg — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:52:20 +0000

The sad thing is CSS actually supports rendering any HTML element using a ‘table’ display type, making it structure itself like tables but without using the tags, just like display: inline and display: block, but of course IE doesn’t support it… sigh