Daniel Keep wrote:
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/03/gecko_18_for_we.html
> 
> Of course, you'll need a fairly recent version of a Mozilla browser.
> Just try resizing the window left and right to see what happens.

That's about as solid an example as anyone could hope for.  Thanks for sending that. :)

.columns {
	-moz-column-width: 20em;
	-moz-column-gap: 3em;
	-moz-column-rule: medium solid;
	-webkit-column-width: 20em;
	-webkit-column-gap: 3em;
	-webkit-column-rule: medium solid;
}

Shame it uses all proprietary styles, but at least it degrades well on IE.

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- EricAnderton at yahoo

DavidSwe wrote:
> I don't know if this deserves an announcement but I changed the layout on wiki4d. I'm just waiting for someone to become annoyed with the new template and revert it back to the default. Because then it's on!! :P
> The template is done by gorotron not by me. If you find any bugs feel free to fix them yourselves...:D

Agh, I also didn't like the new layout, I'm glad it was reverted.

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DavidSwe wrote:
> Couldn't you have tried a different layout instead of reverting to the old one? Forcing Firefox to use no style on wiki4d have about the same look as the old one. I think that speaks for itself.

I suspect the simple answer is that it's easier to revert back than to save your layout or to try a different layout.

The layout has been changed before, but usually less drastic changes have a better chance of surviving. Perhaps, think incremental rather than all at once.

-- 
jcc7

Pragma wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/03/gecko_18_for_we.html
>>
>> Of course, you'll need a fairly recent version of a Mozilla browser. Just try resizing the window left and right to see what happens.
> 
> That's about as solid an example as anyone could hope for.  Thanks for sending that. :)
> 
> .columns {
>     -moz-column-width: 20em;
>     -moz-column-gap: 3em;
>     -moz-column-rule: medium solid;
>     -webkit-column-width: 20em;
>     -webkit-column-gap: 3em;
>     -webkit-column-rule: medium solid;
> }
> 
> Shame it uses all proprietary styles, but at least it degrades well on IE.

Well, all new "experimental" CSS styles in Mozilla start off life as "-moz-*" properties.  The thing here is that, IIRC, all the -moz-* ones above are actually CSS3 Columns save for the prefix (the same goes for Safari.)  They do it this way because at the time the spec hadn't been finalised.

But yeah, it is pretty cool :)

	-- Daniel

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DavidSwe wrote:
> I don't know if this deserves an announcement but I changed the layout on wiki4d. I'm just waiting for someone to become annoyed with the new template and revert it back to the default. Because then it's on!! :P
> The template is done by gorotron not by me. If you find any bugs feel free to fix them yourselves...:D

If your going to change the format, what about something more like wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)?  I think that website looks awesome.

-Joel

DavidSwe Wrote:

> Couldn't you have tried a different layout instead of reverting to the old one?  Forcing Firefox to use no style on wiki4d have about the same look as the old one.  I think that speaks for itself.
<snip top of upside-down reply>

The result is reasonable (in IE6) when I try taking out the CSS.  That's as much as matters IMO - after all, the whole point of CSS is to facilitate the separation of content from aesthetics.

Stewart.