[eyelidlessness]

> Sliding columns for seemingly no reason other than to confuse the reader (Also makes it impossible to skim the article)

FWIW, every time I’ve looked at the state of the art for column flow content on web, this is how it’s felt. Even as browsers have supported it, even web design people barely talk about it because it’s basically bad.

Column flow content in design is managed and carefully laid out for the specific content. The idea that it could be a few css properties was hubris.