Re: Site layout suggestion

[Tom Davis <subscriber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

On 2006 Oct 25, at 4:19 am, Erik Wikström wrote:
> Saw a page just the other day where the amount of columns adapted  
> to the resolution and textsize dynamically, so when I increased the  
> fontsize the number of columns decreased.

Do you happen to know the url of that site? As useful as it obviously  
would be, there is no CSS2.1 attribute that will reflow a block of  
text into multiple columns. It is certainly possible to intercept  
window resize events and use javascript to move words of text between  
DIVs to balance them and add new columns as necessary, but there is  
no way I know of to intercept user changes of text size (Firefox &  
Safari) or Zoom level (Opera) so I'd be very interested in seeing how  
someone else did it. That could be a real boon.

Of course, the site is probably flash, which is proprietary and not  
well supported on the BSDs.

Thanks!

	-- Tom Davis