Posted by David Dorward on 01/12/06 11:31

Jose wrote:

> As for your contention that "filling the viewport" is a reason why people
> don't like certain sites, I'd say that the problem is rather that long
> lines are harder to read than short ones

Thankfully we have max-width. Shame IE doesn't support it yet.

> , and it would be nice if the presentation could be in columns, like a
> newspaper. That would be a nice trick for the browser to be able to
> perform (and actually, there is no reason I can see why a browser should
> not have a user preference to present text in columns like that under
> certain circumstances (columnize if width>120em)

A user preference? Certainly. I'd much rather just scroll down. As for
people who use screen magnification software ...

http://blog.dorward.me.uk/2005/11/15/multicol.html

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