Well, at the moment I've got it working in IE6/Win, Moz1.4/Win, Opera7/Win, and Safari/MacOSX.
I can assume from that that all/most derivatives of Gecko and KHTML also have no problems.
Unfortunately, IE5/Mac causes the right-hand side of the middle column to go vanishing under the right-hand column. If anyone knows anything about the idiosyncracies of IE5/Mac and CSS2, please contact me by email.
It's alright, Mary Kay, it didn't make sense anyway, given that I wasn't paying enough attention to what you and Simon reported. Sorry for shooting the mouth off like that :-)
There's two possible problems for Mary Kay, Simon and David L. One is that IE5 has a bug in its implementation of "float:" which means it'll only scroll as far as the DIV you're floating things around, even if the floating DIV is larger. I think that's fixed in IE6, but in some designs I've seen the floating DIV randomly disappear and reappear upon link mouseovers, which is very odd. The other is that if there's not enough room for the floated DIV and the non-floated "anchor" DIV, the float with disappear below everything. Um, I *think* it's the float (I rarely use "float:", and when I do it's not for layouts -- I don't trust IE's handling of it) that disappears, but it might be the other DIV. One of them gets displayed below the rest of the content, anyway.
Links, Lynx and w3m have three major issues you've got to beware of: 1) they're text-only, so images must be provided with relevant ALT text (or "hidden" (effectively) from text-only browsers with ALT=""), 2) they don't support CSS, so you must use correct HTML if they're going to be able to differentiate one set of text (e.g. headings) from another, and finally 3) they haven't got mouse support, so you don't want to have them spend five minutes navigating with the keyboard just to get to the content. Um, actually I think it's possible to use a mouse in virtual *nix terminals, but my *nix version of Lynx is spitting the dummy ATM (sort of), so I can't check.
The best way to get around "3", that I know of, is to stick the not-main-content DIVs at the bottom of the page (with absolute CSS positioning it won't make a difference where it is), with a link at the top of content/bottom of header saying "skip to navigation". Then at the bottom of the sidebar DIVs, optionally put "back to content". Say for example<a href="#links">at the top and<a href="#content">at the bottom. Use CSS (display: none;) to hide these two links from graphical, CSS-supporting browsers.
This way, users of non-graphical-CSS-supporting browsers (especially text-only mouseless browsers) don't have to scroll endlessly through days and weeks of content.
It's easy these days to get a multicol design without tables (easy if you know how, of course, and if you ignore the whole "browsers suck" bit...), so handhelds (do handhelds support CSS? Tell me "no" :-)) shouldn't have a problem then.
I'll work on a solution now, Pat, that doesn't involve cobbling together :-), and email you.
(BTW, HTML is not programming. I know, it's a bit pedantic for those who aren't web designers. It's kind of a pet hate, I guess... see:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/prog.html )
Uh, Dustin, Alterman is not quite the evil, extremist piece of shit that Coulter is.
(Which is not to say your general idea is wrong -- but comparing his attitude to the so-far-right-it's-crossed-the-line-into-bigotry and the probably-mainstream-left doesn't prove much)
I wouldn't say that such large protests are a demonstration of their power for social change. Given their context, it's rather a case of the protests showing just how easy it is for Certain Persons to lie to themselves about the will of the people around the world, and, when that fails, to totally ignore it.
Sure, the anti-war protests were impressive. But the superhawks just ignored them and pressed on anyway.
(And I say this as a (non-super) "hawk")
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