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Posted by dorayme on 05/03/07 22:46
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<1178187961.844894.261730@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 3 May, 08:47, James Hutton <james.hut...@dsl.NOSPAM.pipex.com>
> wrote:
> > I've got a large number of names (373 in fact) currently in .txt ready
> > to cut and paste into a page. Is there any way to place these into two
> > or three columns which flow automatically,
>
> No, HTML rendering doesn't grok newspaper columns.
>
> This is deliberate though, so why fight it?
Hey Andy, relax. You woke up punching. (Some of the preservative
in Red wines can cause trouble I have found). Op is not fighting
here yet.
> Multiple narrow columns
> (newspaper columns) are a feature of broadsheet newspaper printing,
> where the best way to arrange scrolling is two-dimensionally. On the
> web though, it's easy to scroll a long distance in one dimension, hard
> to scroll sideways. So the "web way" of listing your long list is just
> to keep it as a _single_ long list, not to break it into columns.
No no... all this is not relevant at all. What is wanted and it
would be absurd to deliberately not provide it if it was feasible
is this: the cols flow-wrap, left to right, they adjust their
size to the browser window just like with floated divs. Sideways
scrolling is no necessary part of this conception. I, for one,
would like it very much. This would be 'newspaper' cols adapted
for the web.
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dorayme
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