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Gecko 1.8: Bye-bye printed float bug!

| March 29, 2005 | Category: Cascading Style

From Gecko 1.8 For Web Developers: Columns (via: Anne):

In particular some huge issues involving floats breaking across columns have been fixed. Since we use the same code for page layout as for columns, this also means a lot of problems with printing (and print previewing) pages with floats have been fixed

Hopefully this means that floated elements (read: columns) will be continued on the next page, as they should, instead of disappearing into some kind of magical void.

The article referenced above contains some very interesting CSS news regarding columns — go check it out! It looks like Firefox 1.1 is really going to up the stakes in the CSS 2.1 compliance field. Opera and Mozilla are certainly the driving forces at the moment, though I don’t doubt the Safari team are working hard to stay in the game.

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    Brady J. Frey said:

    I sure as *#$ hope safari is catching up – the more and more I surf on my mac, the more I start leaning into mozilla browsers.

    This is great to know, though – one because I was complaining about printed floats yesterday when I was fudging with my online resume – and two because it makes IE farther and farther in the distance. Cheers to pending defeat.

    Comment posted on:
    12:04 pm, 29th of Mar 2005
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    Andrew said:

    Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr Frey - hey bro :-)
    Believe it or not, IE is (was) slightly ahead of Gecko in this area, as their floats print when split across pages.

    I’ve been using Safari a bit recently (testing only. PC’s forever! ;-)) and my impression has basically been “So what?". It obviously toasts IE mac, but I don’t find it anywhere near as friendly and usable as Firefox.

    Comment posted on:
    1:13 pm, 29th of Mar 2005
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    Brady J. Frey said:

    We’ve both been too busy lately, it was your turn to respond to email this time ;-)

    Yeah, it’s nothing special – and the lack of strong controls like forcing bookmarks (though I’m del.icio.us all the way nowadays) doesn’t help. What ‘does’ help is it definately feels more mac; in it’s key commands, it’s interface, it’s intuitive controls… something firefox lacks completely on the platform.

    Hopefully as http://www.caminobrowser.org/ gets going, I’ll become a full turncoat.

    Firefox is very PC like, it’s probably why you’re so accustomed to it!

    Comment posted on:
    4:25 pm, 29th of Mar 2005
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    Andrew said:

    Camino looks hot! :-o
    I’m considering using del.icio.us aswell, but then I don’t know what I’d do with mindlessLemming. I found your del.icio.us account straight away! hehehe… Some cool links in there ;)

    We’ve both been too busy lately, it was your turn to respond to email this time

    Damn! Sorry mate :mrgreen:

    Comment posted on:
    4:50 pm, 29th of Mar 2005
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    heretic said:

    Egads! You said something nice about Opera.

    Comment posted on:
    11:54 pm, 1st of Apr 2005
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    Geoffrey Sneddon said:

    I was playing around with Moz 1.8b last week, and I did notice quite a few things, but one that stuck out, was it’s sheer speed, can’t wait to see Firefox 1.1…

    Offically, Firefox is just the Windows port of Camino, so, Firefox for Mac is the Mac port of the Windows port of Camino :P

    Firefox just doesn’t have such a good UI as Safari… You know us Mac users ;) Sure, the G5 optimised build flies, but Safari is still faster, even if it is only G3 optimised :P I do use Firefox for workin’ with CSS, as it does have the Web Developer Extension.

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    3:00 am, 4th of Apr 2005

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