Posted by Bone Ur on 11/04/07 03:44

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:53:32
GMT Jonathan N. Little scribed:

> I think dorayme is right here, server-side would have no idea what
> available size with respect to the browser. I think it would require
> some nasty JavaScript to calculate the available space and reposition
> the contents. And of course would also have to hook the onresize to do
> the process all over again if the user resizes the browser... yuck!

Not necessarily. One could use string-length of (record/row), converting
the max to an em number with a reasonable amount of leeway/slop, then float
the tables/containers themselves. The number of containers would be to
taste, -sensible, of course, and their max-width would need to be a
suitable fraction of typical screenwidth. This might break with super-
large font-sizes, but most things do, anyway.

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Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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