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Solutions for 2005: It is possible to create a float/flow construction that appears to be *somewhat* like your customer wants in almost every browser.
I can confirm this. The problem with this Tetris-like figures is to manage their projection to objects in the page flow.
Imagine a dt/dd-construct, dt holds the image, dd the text. Align them vertical via floating, not too hard to do.
[text1..........][image1] [text2..........][image2]
position the floating images relatively with +/- margins
[text1..........][image2] [image1][text2..........]
color the background and we will expect something like this
xxxxxxxxxx#### xxxx##########
This can be done with width+height in em-sizes and z-indexing of the images.
Not so easy, because this requires massive hacking due the known float problems of IE and the z-index problems of Opera8. And when you apply a simple border, the em-offset will miss one or two pixel ... and that's just two figures ... this will never look "light-weighted" if pixel perfect at all, when I'm not wrong.
I would agree: drop this print design.
(In case your client likes squares and rectangles: see Bruno Fassino's reply to my question here: Just squares.
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/52176
or my dl-test: Just rectangles. http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/dltest.html )
But I'm not a designer and I should leave this answer to designers who have solved this catalogue-in-CSS-problem for sure. Can I have some tips?
Regards, Ingo
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