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 at opera.no]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:12 PM
> To: w3c-html-wg at 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 at 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
>