haakon-wium-lie

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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   We obviously have different points of view: I find that the best presentations on mobile devices often borrow more from paged designs than from scrolled designs. As such, I believe that being able to paginate content on dynamic screens is i
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   It's a way of using multicol to save screenspace. For Wikipedia references, this works well even in scrolled environments. It would not work so well for body text du to columns then being longer than the height of the screen. For longe
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   I agree that paged layout are both cool and terrifying. Scrolled layout are much simpler for the formatter as there always is more space to use. Splitting content into pages, known as pagination, can be hard when there are unbreakable chunk
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   No media queries are used, the HTML/CSS source of the document is linked to further down in the article.
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   Yes, that's how the spec is written: the style sheet specifies an optimal line length, but it will be adjusted somewhat to fill the whitespace.
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   Check out Wikipedia, they use multi-column layout nicely for their references.
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   by haakon-wium-lie 12y ago

   Don't be sad, doing paged layouts is quite an interesting challenge in CSS. Native apps use the routinely and newspapers is just one well-known example. See the spec for more examples. Also, the challenge here is not to replicate newsp