Re:The broken web
by glhaynes on Monday March 01, 2010 @05:56PM
(#1160031)
I just was ranting to a friend about this exact problem before clicking this link.
This "using a background image to make your faux columns look like columns" business is bunk. To call it "hack-free" is lunacy.
Is there any other part of CSS that's so jacked up? (Other than all the stuff that's really IE's fault.) I find CSS to work fine in nearly every other way... always takes some trial and error since I don't code CSS every day, but it's sensible and in many ways seems elegant. But equal-height columns really need some love in CSS4 or something.
I'm switching to a table for the one part of my site that needs this. And I won't abide any grief for this "hack" since it's about 50x less hacky than what I'd have to do to make it work in a "non-hacky" way.
This "using a background image to make your faux columns look like columns" business is bunk. To call it "hack-free" is lunacy.
Is there any other part of CSS that's so jacked up? (Other than all the stuff that's really IE's fault.) I find CSS to work fine in nearly every other way... always takes some trial and error since I don't code CSS every day, but it's sensible and in many ways seems elegant. But equal-height columns really need some love in CSS4 or something.
I'm switching to a table for the one part of my site that needs this. And I won't abide any grief for this "hack" since it's about 50x less hacky than what I'd have to do to make it work in a "non-hacky" way.