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On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:59, Neil Williams wrote: > On Saturday 05 Jul 2003 12:45 am, Tony Atkin wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:18 am, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > > Could you design some clever CSS that automatically calculates when the > > > last page of your printout is going to consist of the header, the footer > > > and a couple of words of text? I'd hate to think how many sheets of > > > paper get wasted like that every year... > > > > I always thought that this was one of those cruel twists of fate, like > > toast always landing butter side down. It's real, it's happening and it's > > out there. Somebody should produce a dossier. > > Not true. All you need to do is fix the toast, butter side up, to your cat's > back, drop the cat and you'll have perpetual motion and never work again. > :-) Nah, we worked it out once (in a bar, obviously) you don't need the toast, just hot buttered cats ;) On the topic of CSS, there is one browser that breaks webpages using CSS entirely, that I am aware of, Oregano 2 for RISC OS, which unfortunately manages the worst possible approach to supporting a protocol, it doesn't support even the CSS1 standard fully. So while Oregano, which doesn't support CSS at all, degrades quite elegantly and still provides a readable website, if one that doesn't look at all similar to the original design, In oregano 2 it just produces a horrible mess that isn't at all easy to read. But as this very much a minority browser it isn't too much of a problem, but it does demonstrate that if you are going to support a standard in software, either support it fully, or don't support it at all. -- James jamesk[at]beeb[dot]net "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." Scott Adams
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