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- NO @spam-hotmail.com Thor W Hammer

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Jun 5, 2003, 10:04:19 AM6/5/03
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I read in MSDN that Microsoft recommend people not to use standards like
XSL-FO because most of the functionallity overlaps with that provided by
cascading style sheets (CSS) and the HTML tag set.

Then I have two questions:

1: Is it possible to break up a page in two or more columns and have the
elements on page floating from on column to another?

2: If the answer to question 1 is yes: Is it possible to tell that a
spesifik element shall not be devided, but must be moved to the next column
if there isn't enough space left for the element in the current column/page?

Thor


Toby A Inkster

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Jun 5, 2003, 1:54:37 PM6/5/03
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:04:19 +0200, Thor W Hammer wrote:

> I read in MSDN that Microsoft recommend people not to use standards like
> XSL-FO because most of the functionallity overlaps with that provided by
> cascading style sheets (CSS) and the HTML tag set.

And because XSL-FO is a purely presentational language, so you might as
well use PDF.

> 1: Is it possible to break up a page in two or more columns and have the
> elements on page floating from on column to another?

Yes, but only in CSS 3, which is in the final stages of development and
only has basic implementation in Opera 7 and Gecko.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/

> 2: If the answer to question 1 is yes: Is it possible to tell that a
> spesifik element shall not be devided, but must be moved to the next column
> if there isn't enough space left for the element in the current column/page?

Not that I can see.

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Marek Mänd

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Jun 17, 2003, 6:09:02 PM6/17/03
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Thor W Hammer wrote:
> Then I have two questions:
> 1: Is it possible to break up a page in two or more columns and have the
> elements on page floating from on column to another?

Ancient Netscape3 (was that year 1996?) intrrocuced MULTICOL tag.
Netscape4 also supports it. NO other known browser to me support that tag.

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