The new Firefox 1.5 (= Mozilla 1.8, as far as I understand) is the first one to support multi-column layouts. Of course I created a quick test page to study the effect.
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2 Posted by minghong on 14 September 2005 | Permalink
Firefox 1.5 is not out yet. :-)
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 = Mozilla 1.8b4
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 = Mozilla 1.8b5
Firefox 1.5 = Mozilla 1.8
3 Posted by Jeremy French on 14 September 2005 | Permalink
The only thing that you didn't test was the float: in-column and mid-column.
Just checked and it dosn't support these. Dosn't recognise them as valid values for float.
4 Posted by peter tipton on 15 September 2005 | Permalink
I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050914 Firefox/1.0.7 ie the latest version, but I don't see any of the test cases that you've developed, just paragraphs of text across the page. I have got to 'switch' anything on?.
5 Posted by Robin on 15 September 2005 | Permalink
The 1.0.x series was branched a while back and has only been receiving security enhancements. Rendering engine work has been done on the trunk and will appear in the Firefox 1.5 branch.
6 Posted by Angus Turnbull on 15 September 2005 | Permalink
It's an interesting feature and congrats to RoC and the other Mozilla "layout" developers for hacking the code to support it! However, I don't feel columns are that usable on the web in their "standard" form; the scrolling up and down involved is too annoying.
Mozilla's "height" implementation is the only implementation I'd really consider deploying, much like stories on the IHT website:
Pity it's not considered part of the "standards", as defining a height (especially relative to the viewport, or max-height) and therefore making a page entirely horizontally-scrolled could allow myriad interesting designs...
What do you guys think? Any design/usability gurus in the audience?
7 Posted by Scott Johnson on 25 September 2005 | Permalink
That page really craps out in Firefox 1.0.6/Mac. While I welcome new CSS features as much as the next web developer, this stuff really will need to be backward-compatible if it's ever going to take off.
8 Posted by Mats Lindblad on 3 October 2005 | Permalink
I found another thing related to columns on one of Mozillas test pages and it is "::-moz-column-content" which allowes you to style content in columns and only that content. I have tried it at http://people.su.se/~matlin/css3.html
1 Posted by Vasilis on 13 September 2005 | Permalink
It works on the latest nightly build of Camino too. Thanks for the test page.