Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

[Michael Winter]

On 30/12/2005 16:45, Xah Lee wrote:

[Follow-ups trimmed to c.i.w.a.stylesheets]

[snip]

> A proposed solution is in CSS3 “Multi-column layout”, drafted in
> 2001 but not yet in any mainstream browsers as of 2005-12.

Quite rightly so, in my opinion. The Multi-column layout module is 
currently a working draft and, as I recall, a relatively vague one at 
that. It would be rather foolish to produce anything but a 
proof-of-concept implementation until its various aspects are finalised.

[Aside]
If I remember correctly, Mozilla implemented the W3C DOM Level 3 Events 
module, which introduced a keyboard event type (KeyEvent). In a later 
revision, this interface name was replaced with TextEvent. Later on, a 
similarly named interface (KeyboardEvent) was introduced, focusing 
specifically on low-level keyboard events. These radical changes 
wouldn't mean very much had Mozilla waited.

The DOM Level 3 Events module has been a Working Group Note since 
November 2003. This probably marks the end of its development.
[/Aside]

[snip]

Mike

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