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Melinda: At this point in time, we have no opinion on this change.   *************************************************************************** Don Wright                     don@lexmark.com                                f.wright@ieee.org / f.wright@computer.org Director of Standards Lexmark International          INCITS Executive Board Vice-Chair C14/082-3                      IEEE SA Standards Board Past Chair 740 New Circle Rd              IEEE SASB Patent Committee Chair   Lexington, Ky 40550            Member: IEEE SA Board of Governors 859-825-4808 (phone)           Member: IEEE CS SAB & W3C AC 603-963-8352 (fax)             Director, IEEE-ISTO ***************************************************************************   <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td>"Grant, Melinda" <melinda.grant@hp.com> Sent by: owner-xp@pwg.org 09/13/2006 08:58 PM <td>                To:        <xp@pwg.org>         cc:                 Subject:        XP> [CSS3 Print] New feature proposal: 'fit' and 'fit-position'</table> The CSS3 Box module contains two features that HP believes would be quite valuable for the CSS Print solution space, namely 'fit' and 'fit-position'.  See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box#fit">http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box#fit</a> for a description.   These features would be a valuable addition to CSS Print, because they enable very easy positioning of images within boxes, something those of us who have worked on templates know requires lots of messy computation and numeric values with the currently required feature set.   Adding new requirements to CSS Print will cause us to retreat from CR (Candidate Recommendation) status to LCWD (Last Call Working Draft) status for at least three weeks.  Since CSS Print is waiting on CSS 2.1 to advance beyond CR, this short setback won't affect its completion schedule.   Neither would this additional requirement affect current standards such as UPnP Print Enhanced or Bluetooth BPP.  They both point to the current CR specification, and this of course won't change.  However, new standards could point to a new CR version, thereby requiring additional feature support.   Questions have been raised about whether multiple levels of conformance in the market would create interoperability problems.  It would not, because the change is b/w compatible (nothing is being taken away), and support for the new standard(s) would indicate support for the new features.   If you have objections to this proposed change, or wish to express support, please post your opinion here or to <a href="mailto:www-style@w3.org">www-style@w3.org</a> by September 23.   Best wishes,   Melinda  _____ HP  -   Melinda Grant Connectivity Standards Consumer Printing and Imaging +1 (541) 582-3681 melinda.grant@hp.com    _____