Über das Problem mehrspaltigen Text auf Webseiten zu platzieren und die Lösungsansätze, die kommende CSS-Spezifikation CSS3 dazu bietet, berichtet der Artikel «Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module» von Cédric Savarese bei A List Apart.
While most computer screens are wider than tall, most websites are the exact opposite: longer than wide. In the economy of screen-estate, vertical space is expensive. If you were a piece of content, you would want to be above the fold, right? Horizontal space, on the other hand, is quite cheap; we often don’t even know what to do with it.