Technicalworx

Musings of a designer-engineer

Experimenting With CSS3 Multi-Column Layout

This week I was working on a prototype layout for one of our internal tools and I decided to try out the CSS3 multi-column layout module.

Currently only Mozilla and Webkit support multi-column styles, but since this is an internal tool I have a greater degree of fredom in adopting graceful degradation and progressive enhancement.

What I found out is that Firefox and Webkit have implementes the ambiguous parts of the standard very differently, resulting in some weird behaviour. A simple 4 column layout results in inconsistent UIs depending on your browser of choice.

Technicalworx 2.0: Now With Octopress

It’s been quite a while since this blog was last updated, so I’ve decided to start fresh and with a new focus.

When I first registered this domain on July 2002, I was still a university student and this was a means to communicate with my friends. Those were the days before Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ when blogging was social media. Over the past few years, as my interactions with friends moved elsewhere, this site has become stagnant and in need of a makeover.