Although CSS3 has not yet become the specification for the web, there is one new development which seems very exciting for the purposes of layout: an attribute selector tentatively called "column-count". This attribute allows the author to format text to flow into a predetermined number of columns of equal height, the way you can do with a desktop publishing program like InDesign or Quark. Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is already experimenting with this attribute. Unfortunately it only works in Mozilla browsers as of this writing, though I'm hoping Opera jumps on this too. As I said in another post: who cares what that atavistic browser parody, IE 7, 8, whatever– does with their product.
Anyway, here's a sample Lorem Ipsum example of the column-count attribute set to "3". Take a look at it in a basic text editor; see how basic the markup is. To view the style in action, however, you'll have to be in a recent vintage Mozilla browser.
Anyway, I'm thrilled. But then, I'm easily captivated by shiny objects and other trivial things.
If you refer to CSS3 multi-columns, yes that is something we are interested in (and after all our CTO is author for the specification).
excellent!—I really need to get a new avatar