I have long believed that this was not possible in web design. I today find this from the W3C suggesting maybe it is possible — or going to be possible? I find their content to be near impossible to unravel and understand. What is proposed? What actually exists? What is the latest post on something? Anyway, this particular post is dated in 2001. I am guessing it was a proposal that failed and that absent scripting this is an impossible task. Can anyone prove me wrong and show me an example where it is working?

I would like to use it for example where I have a growing list of items. I want an equal number of items in each column. I can code a script to see how many items I have at a given time, divide by the number of columns and do the job. How much nicer if it could all just flow and when you add an extra couple of items, the html/css knows what to do?

I look forward to your comments.

Don

This article was posted on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 at 1:35 pm