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Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward
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Divya Manian
A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of
which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made
numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. Several articles have
been written on finding the holy grail of CSS layouts, but to date, not a single
solution works without major caveats. At the W3Conf, I gave a talk on how
the CSS Working Group is attempting to solve the concerns of Web
developers with multiple proposals. There are six layout proposals that are
relevant to us, all of which I described in the talk:
Here is a little more about these proposals and how they will help you in
developing websites in the future.
Generated Content For Paged Media
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Demo
• Browser support: Opera Labs Build only
This proposal outlines a set of features that would modify the contents of
any element to flow as pages, like in a book. A video demonstration shows
how to use paged media to generate HTML5 slideshows (look at the demos
for GCPM in the Opera Labs Build to play with the features more). To make
the content of an element be paged, you would use this syntax:
