Template talk:columns

Template:columns
This template does absolutely nothing for most of our users. It is unfair and dangerous to make pages that appear differently in different browsers deliberately. If someone wants to implement this feature in JavaScript for IE users, please do, then we can keep it. If you want really long lists of terms, it is better to use horizontal lists, as is done by the indexes, that way the user doesn't have to scroll the length of the page at the end of a column, if you want shorter lists of terms, the etc. do that adequately. Conrad.Irwin 17:42, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hm, this doesn't work in IE? Delete or fix somehow. (Someone might also want to work on which I'm pretty sure doesn't work in IE either.) --Yair rand 17:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed, same problem. Conrad.Irwin 17:57, 2 April 2010 (UTC)


 * unfair and dangerous to make pages that appear differently in different browsers deliberately—it's a standard web-authoring practice, to be used judiciously, called progressive enhancement. People with old browsers get poorer display anyway, but the site still works. Is this causing problems for most of our users? Why delete it if it only gives benefits to some of our users with better browsers? Why bring everyone down to the stone age? —Michael Z. 2010-04-03 06:35 z 

What proportion of our users use IE? —Michael Z. 2010-04-03 06:00 z 
 * just over half. Conrad.Irwin 14:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Wow, that is interesting. I'm actually surprised MSIE's share is only 50%. Any idea how to find out if that is page requests only or all browser requests (i.e. including .css, .js, etc)?. Does any tally visits, as opposed to browser requests? —Michael Z. 2010-04-03 22:44 z 

delete since it does not work on my non-IE browser either, for some reason. -- Prince Kassad 06:07, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


 * What browser is your non-IE browser? —Michael Z. 2010-04-03 06:22 z 


 * It's Opera. -- Prince Kassad 06:49, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, the columns spec was written by Håkon from Opera, so we can be optimistic... —Michael Z. 2010-04-03 13:49 z 

Fails, though perhaps it could be recreated one day if the browser issue is solved, no? Anyway needs to be orphaned. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

RFD discussion: March–April 2023
This untranscluded alternative to was created by Vahagn Petrosyan in 2014 with the edit summary, "testing". The only differences between it and is that it does not sort by default and does not collapse by default. I propose we hard redirect it to, as it seems a natural alias, but I would also be content with deletion. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 05:21, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't remember why I created it. It can be deleted. Vahag (talk) 08:17, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

RFD-deleted, can be redirected if really wanted, but I feel like we try to avoid unnecessary redirects in template space This, that and the other (talk) 12:52, 7 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @This, that and the other Can you delete this template's documentation page as well? Thanks. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 23:03, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ This, that and the other (talk) 23:55, 15 May 2023 (UTC)