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Re:Motherfucking Website by bjeanes on Sunday November 24, 2013 @07:52PM (#6791917)
I'm not disagreeing with you but I thought I'd try this as a user stylesheet for this page just now and it looks pretty great on my screen:

    body { -webkit-column-count: 3; } // or -moz- or no prefix or whatever
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Re:Motherfucking Website by dredmorbius on Sunday November 24, 2013 @08:39PM (#6792052)
I'm note a huge fan of column layouts, but first time I saw that particular trick.

Might split out the header separately.

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Re:Motherfucking Website by bjeanes on Sunday November 24, 2013 @08:45PM (#6792073)
Yeah... and doing it on the whole body would be fatiguing on long pages because you have to scroll up and down the whole page after each column. I'd probably want to do column-split content areas over a certain width (e.g. an <article> or something).
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Re:Motherfucking Website by etcet on Sunday November 24, 2013 @09:49PM (#6792250)
I played around with columns a few years ago[0] after I first saw them being used. I use some JS to keep the containing div the same height as the window and hook into scroll events. This was several years ago fairly soon after columns were being implemented and I'm sure there's a better way of doing it today.

[0] https://etcet.net/projects/columns/

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