New home page

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Oct 4 14:24:35 PDT 2010


Michel Fortin wrote:
> Very true. CSS is great, except when you want columns, especially more 
> than 2 columns with where columns have a background that must end at the 
> same height.
> 
> That said, you could play with `display: table`. But the basic problem 
> with `display: table` (like many "advanced" things in CSS) is that it 
> won't work much with IE less than 8. Can you believe it took so long for 
> Microsoft to implement this important part of a specification from 2009 
> (CSS 2.1)? This is really the problem with the web: the dominant browser 
> stopped evolving during a long period and is only now beginning to catch 
> up. So now we're navigating in a sea of workarounds because everyone 
> needs columns and other things that need a hack to work in IE.

Looks like I'm going back to < table > tags.


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