Is it a good idea to use javascript to completely reshape a website’s design? Columnizer is a JQuery plugin which makes the long wished for and ever intangible vertical wrap CSS feature come to life.
The idea of the feature is to allow for dynamic newspaper style columns on a website. Columns have ordinarily been unachievable though any means but manually separating up content (which would still give unpredictable results).
I’m in the camp that wants the web to be both usable and pretty even with javascript turned off. I’ve missed lots of neat aspects of websites as a result of browsing behind NoScript in past. I think it would be very difficult to make a website designed with such drastic styling done with javascript degrade gracefully in a browser with the tool disabled. However, from a designer’s perspective, this is still one of the most interesting JQuery plugins I’ve seen yet.