>1/ Based on the most recent WebKit nightly builds (aka future
>Safari), adding {position:relative} to each column is a (possible)
>work around.
>This of course
> * is only true at the time of writing (WebKit is not a release
>version, but beta software; things may change ...)
> * is only tested with all the simple test files we've used. What
>happens in a complex construction is left your powers of
>investigation :-)
>
>That workaround doesn't cause problems for Gecko based browsers, as
>far as I could see.
Of course, applying pos:rel to the columns then means that you can't
position elements inside them with regard to the containing element.
If you don't need to do that, then fine.
My workaround is along these lines:
Absolutely position a very tall element at the bottom of each column
using generated content which overflow:hidden clips
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/equalheightssfariidea
Obviously it won't work in Mozilla since it doesn't allow for
absolute positioning of generated content...
If you don't need to deal with anchors or its failure in Mozilla or
IE, this is actually a better method than the original since it
allows for background images to be reliably positioned elsewhere than
just at the top.
>2/ I wouldn't be too surprised if Safari (Webkit) supports XBL
>bindings as well. D.Hyatt was a co-author of the original Mozilla
>docs. Although the test file didn't work.
Well yes. The CSS Standards editors are also adamant that XBL is the
correct way of dealing with such things, just as XBL is how we should
reorder semantically ordered columns for visual display.
That still leaves the issue of how to handle javascript being turned
off and XBL's not even being applied and the more practical one that
Safari doesn't support it yet. And as far as I know there's no word
on when if ever Opera will.
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