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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
CSS does columns, where if you add content to one side of the page, it scrolls to the other? How does it know/decide where the "bottom" of the screen is? (Not that columns are optimum for ebook readers; I'm just not sure I've ever seen web pages that use columns--and it'd be a great way to keep all of an article on a single screen without scrolling.)
I know that CSS can do text-boxes and variable indentations for different blocks of text and images with text-wraparound, and potentially tables/charts, and those should be enough to deal with textbooks. Not, of course, that any company is spending substantial time making reflowable textbooks instead of "here's the PDF we sent to print; wrap some DRM around it and throw it in the portable device."
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Yes, that:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#...i-column-model
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I'm just not sure I've ever seen web pages that use columns--and it'd be a great way to keep all of an article on a single screen without
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The css to do that iss all new. And most of times, it's just a bad idea.
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Perhaps, but if so then only for a very specific screen and font size. If the user selects a large enough font on a small enough screen, and you won't be able to fit both columns on the screen, side by side, as the author intended.
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It's works fine on pc. And it do reflow. But with the orizon, you get only the first page.
Multi columns on a small screen is just unreadable anyway, that the problem. And why it should be avoided.
e-book and p-book ARE different, handling them the same way is not always the right thing to do.