584292 - [Opera 10.60] "Technology for Web Developers" section items have layout issues

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

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Using Opera 10.60 for Mac OS X, the "Technology for Web Developers" section under the "Docs" tab is one long vertical line; it should 4 columns x 5 rows.

Comment 1

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Using Opera 10.60 for Mac OS X, the "Technology for Web Developers" section
> under the "Docs" tab is one long vertical line; it should 4 columns x 5 rows.

Opera doesn't yet support CSS3 multi-columns so the list degrades to a typical single-column list. The same will happen in all current versions of IE and really old versions of Gecko and Webkit.

If it's a requirement to be four columns in all browsers, we'll have to either break it into four lists or float the individual list items (which changes the order of the items). Since this is graceful degradation I'm inclined to call this a "wontfix."

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Jay, do we care about Opera having layout parity w/Firefox?  I'd say we can live with this, given the installed userbase of Opera, on the whole (and that it does work fine in shipping version of Chrome/Safari).

Comment 3

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Considering the market share, I wouldn't worry about this right now.  We should eventually fix this, but I'm not going to block on the release.

Comment 4

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

Eventually Opera will "fix" it by adding support for CSS3 columns without us lifting a finger. It will still degrade gracefully in older clients and they'll display an entirely readable, accessible, semantically pure and attractively styled unordered list in a single column. Progressive enhancement, baby!