Maybe we can make the calendar thin and tall?

Perhaps dribbled along the side, as in the example of this page.

This needs some work, but there are some nice things about it. The calendar is unobtrusive, more or less (a little font and color work can help there). We can see an entire month at a glance, too, in a way that will fit in a single screenful on most screens.

This page (rather harrowingly) uses CSS2 placement nonsense to get this effect; there are no tables whatsoever! There are still browsers out there that don't handle this type of thing well: this page looks (as of this writing, anyway) fairly scary under links or lynx.

I still use links and lynx a lot. Hmmm.

This solution still has the problem of putting a fixed-height thing next to dynamic content, too.

Looking at it now, I am torn. The layout stunts that CSS2 can do are pretty damn cool, and I think that putting a navigational calendar down the side like this is a pretty good solution that can be made to look nice, and not get in the way. But this is really a two-column solution, and I really don't want that. Things look too busy, really, in the end. For me, anyway.

Additionally, it has been reported to me that this page is completely broken under IE and Opera. Sigh.

Hmmm.

Back, an old standard
Next, like a bug

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