I’ve stumbled across a really great project (CSS3 PIE) today that makes it possible to use CSS3 rounded corners, shadows and gradients even in IE6, IE7 and IE8 using CSS settings and usual CSS3 notation.
It uses *.htc file that does the trickery and makes it really transparent for developers (as in set it and forget it – no additional script calls when creating new pages or changing existing ones (provided you don’t change CSS)).
I wonder if there’s anything similar for multi column layout that can be used. Floating is not an option because content is not laid out top to bottom – left to right, but rather left to right – top to bottom…
Anybody developing something similar for CSS3 multi column layout?
Maybe the Columnizer jQuery Plugin?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t parse your stylesheet and look for the relevant properties like CSS3 PIE does (a very convenient feature).
Both CSS3 PIE and that plugin rely on JavaScript.