IceWeb 2006 notes - Eric Meyer, "the one true layout"

Written April 28. 2006, at 10:16 GMT.

• Plays off the article In search of the One True Layout by Alex Robinson.
• "Any order columns are great" ... but ... "Equal-height columns are much more fragile"
• Casts David ?? ("danger! danger!") and Ian Hickson as "Robot and Will Robinson" from Lost in Space
• Seems to claim that Alex was the first one to come up with "Any order columns" float technique (or at least document it in October 2005). However, I've used it since January 2005, and Árni at work has used it even longer than that. I seem to remember reading about AOC way earlier than Oct 2005..

All in all, Eric's talk was fairly basic (for me at least) but he's obviously a very thoughtful and smart guy. (Eric's website.)

Afterwards, maestro Joe Clark came to me and we had a brief, friendly, chat. I'm thrilled if not starstruck. Joe's been my accessibility hero for years now. :-)

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