I’ve had a fairly painful day exper­i­ment­ing with the One True Lay­out Equal Height Col­umn tech­nique in con­junc­tion with a design that requires lots of rounded cor­ners in all the wrong places (no, design will not yield to CSS!) and put out a call for help on the WSG mail­ing list for the first time in a while.

That place is magic. Gun­laug Sør­tun came back in under six hours with another tech­nique I hadn’t even heard of that looks pretty good, the com­pan­ion columns method. He also has a page ded­i­cated to CSS table– styled columns, but it looks like it could involve a bit too much browser hack­ing (yes, IE) in order to be worthwhile.

More exper­i­men­ta­tion doubt­less to come.