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Re:Explore Wikipedia's New Look by geokon on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:00PM (#34436554)
Why not just have multiple columns of text instead of half a screen of emptyness and stuff users rarely interact with?

You could arrange the different wiki sections to be side by side.. in a dynamic responsive way depending on device/screen size

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Re:Explore Wikipedia's New Look by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:39PM (#34436751)
I find multicolumn on digital screens especially in the browser to seem very clunky.

And with an arbitrary article length, multicol would require pagination, right?

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Re:Explore Wikipedia's New Look by geokon on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:43AM (#34437391)
Do you have any examples?

I see some examples on MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

I imagine there are a few ways to do it. I'd just have columns break at section headers. It'd also jive well with the wiki pic/quick-info right hand sidebar that's common

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