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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jul 8, 2005 8:17AM

> > I agree with Pat and if you are stuck and in need of a quick solution
> > have a look at
> >
> > http://www.glish.com/css/home.asp
>
> The CSS isnt a problem for me.
> Its more to do with how well CSS behaves sometimes.
>
> If you look at the RNID page, you will see a simple 3 column table being used.
>
> http://www.rnid.org.uk/

And if you consider low vision people you will soon realise that
column layouts are a bad idea anyway :-) This is a p******** contest
nobody can win.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/lowvision/

At least you can define a CSS layout to break into one column, where a
table will cause horizontal scrolling


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