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XP> RE: XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as media="scr een" (PR#6870)

From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) (jim.bigelow@hp.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 15:48:19 EDT

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    Jonny,

    I agree with the assessment of the virus-like spread of this idea and thank
    you for setting me straight. I'm very relieved.

    Jim

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jonny Axelsson [mailto:jax@opera.no]
    > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:12 PM
    > To: w3c-html-wg@w3.org
    > Subject: Re: XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute
    > as media="screen" (PR#6870)
    >
    >
    >
    > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:38:38 -0500, <jim.bigelow@hp.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Sections 3.13 and 3.15 of the W3C Last Call Working Draft of
    > > XHTML-Print
    > > [1] state, "The absence of the media attribute MUST be
    > treat[ed] as if
    > > the media attribute had the value 'screen.'" At the risk
    > of be accused
    > > of mind reading, I think that most document authors do not
    > write style
    > > sheets for printing but would like the styles to be applied when
    > > printing as well as browsing. Therefore changing the value
    > "screen" in
    > > the statement shown above to the value "all" would give more
    > > consistent results when browsing and printing.
    >
    > I am starting to believe that this error isn't a bug (yes,
    > the default
    > value *is* "all"), but a virus the way it keeps replicating. Anyone
    > willing to guess which spec it will infect next?
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Jonny Axelsson,
    > Web Standards,
    > Opera Software
    >



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