I have a feeling 2-column would be enough. Putting the left-hand menu by itself would be weird with the sub-menus thing. If the left column got the full width, there wouldn't be anything to the right for the menu to pop out over. Re-inventing the left-hand menu is too big a job.

So how about this:

|*********|	|**************|
|  Left	|	|	Center	|
|  Menu	|	|	Menu	|
|*********|	|**************|

|	Right Menu			|

|	Office Links			|

|	Rest of footer		|

Some notes:

1) The office links would be in one full-width column, bigger fonts (to be more clickable).

2) I think we might choose this layout for both Phone Portrait and Phone Landscape.

Blaise, I realize this might not work, as I have altered the markup by moving office links out of "rest of footer".

--Paul

On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Nat Katin-Borland wrote:

> Maybe we collapse the portals on each side and just make them links that
> people can click on?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:21 PM
> To: Nathaniel Katin-Borland
> Subject: [Bug 1042325] Re: Office links in footer bleed out in ux2 on iPhone
> 
> I added Blaise to this so he can see the conversation.
> 
> Nat, I made this High and assigned to you because we probably *do* have
> to think about this before Chipp gets involved. The intranet home page
> is a pathological case "on the iPhone." In this case it has nothing to
> do with the iPhone, as noted in the ticket. Instead, the problem is 3
> columns on a narrow screen where the middle column is flexible and the
> other two are fixed.
> 
> IMO we should start talking about this before Chipp.
> 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042325
> 
> Title:
>  Office links in footer bleed out in ux2 on iPhone
> 
> Status in KARL3:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  At narrow widths, all the office links become one-per-line. That's
>  because the middle column is flexible and the other two aren't.
> 
>  This isn't an iPhone bug. It happens also in Firefox on the desktop if
>  you make a very narrow browser. One could argue that it isn't a bug at
>  all...it's doing what is intended (giving the left/right columns the
>  width.
> 
>  If we can come up with a quick fix, fine. But we might have to re-
>  invent certain aspects of the intranet home page:
> 
>  1) That list of office links will never work well anyway...the links
>  are too small to hit with your finger by tapping. Perhaps we replace
>  it with a drop-down menu, or move the list of links out of the columns
>  and into a heading below with the links underneath.
> 
>  2) We shouldn't do 3 columns on iPhone portrait. Not nearly enough
>  width.
> 
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042325
> 
> Title:
>  Office links in footer bleed out in ux2 on iPhone
> 
> Status in KARL3:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  At narrow widths, all the office links become one-per-line. That's
>  because the middle column is flexible and the other two aren't.
> 
>  This isn't an iPhone bug. It happens also in Firefox on the desktop if
>  you make a very narrow browser. One could argue that it isn't a bug at
>  all...it's doing what is intended (giving the left/right columns the
>  width.
> 
>  If we can come up with a quick fix, fine. But we might have to re-
>  invent certain aspects of the intranet home page:
> 
>  1) That list of office links will never work well anyway...the links
>  are too small to hit with your finger by tapping. Perhaps we replace
>  it with a drop-down menu, or move the list of links out of the columns
>  and into a heading below with the links underneath.
> 
>  2) We shouldn't do 3 columns on iPhone portrait. Not nearly enough
>  width.
> 
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl3/+bug/1042325/+subscriptions