Closed Bug 53192 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

no "multicol" extra anymore

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(Core :: Layout: Tables, enhancement, P3)

x86
Windows NT
enhancement

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16869
Future

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(Reporter: tietz, Assigned: karnaze)

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it's a pity that you have not got that lovely extra anymore - in fact I was
hoping it would enter the HTML-Standard but it doesn't look like it, right? It
would have made the internet a bit more familiar for everybody editing pages.

Thinking of the content management systems winning more and more space:
It means more "normal" people edit web pages and they are uses to word
processing features like the text flowing into the next column if it's too long
for one.

Is there any chance to see that feature again?
Please refresh my memory, what is multicol?
*** Bug 53194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
MULTICOL was a Netscape extension in 3.0. With the tag you could separate text 
into columns. Attached is a small testcase that works in Nav.
I am confirming this as a bug in that it works in Nav and not Netscape6. 
However, I have no knowledge of what the policy is in terms of Netscape6 support 
of this tag.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Adding ekrock to the CC list. This seems to be his domain. In my opinion 
multicol should be handled like layer tags.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16869 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
CSS3 will very probably give a standards compliant way of doing columns.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
So it acts like a very simple table (with the cols attr but without tr, td, 
etc).
Target Milestone: --- → Future
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