Whatever you want could go here as an example of the first group of columns that appear above the main article. Fun isn't it! Just like a magazine or newspaper! Who'd have thought that Netscape 3 and 4 were capable of this? Yet such simple layouts are a nightmare to code in our current so-called modern browsers, without resorting to tables. Maybe they should have been allowed to continue the work that went into Netscape 5. Then again... maybe not. Still, you'd have thought such a layout as this would be one of the most common things standard HTML would offer us, not one of the rarest!
(This is an excerpt from a post I made here.)
There's a lot of web talk at the moment regarding the future of the browser's humble bookmark (or 'favorite' if you're using Internet Explorer). Most people agree the current method of storing and retrieving bookmarks is a mess. Anyone who's spent any length of time on the web will know that attempting to bookmark several useful sites, or even parts of a page such as a comment, leads to folders of countless junk links. And when you try to find something you bookmarked ages ago, can you? Often I find myself trawling up and down lists too long to fit the screen height, struggling to find a nugget of the web I bookmarked once, but now seems to have vanished. The culprit is often the title it was saved under. If this bares no relation to the content, as often happens, then all hope is lost in attempting to relocate the bookmark.
But stop! Browser makers are on the case. Firefox 2 or 3 may include a radical overhaul of bookmarks. This will probably rely on a tag-based system, meaning you can search for any bookmarked link based on a key tag word. Each bookmark may then go in one or more categories, meaning you can list each category as well without having to do a search.
Other ideas being proposed include generating the key tags automatically from the web page when it is bookmarked. Even forums are now starting to use tags to make it easier to find posts. The downside is taking the time to add the right tags every time.
Whatever you want could go here as an example of the final group of columns that appear after the main article. Fun isn't it! Just like a magazine or newspaper! Who'd have thought that Netscape 3 and 4 were capable of this? Yet such simple layouts are a nightmare to code in our current so-called modern browsers, without resorting to tables. Maybe they should have been allowed to continue the work that went into Netscape 5. Then again... maybe not. Still, you'd have thought such a layout as this would be one of the most common things standard HTML would offer us, not one of the rarest!
Footer! © 2006 Chris Hester 15 February 2006.