XP> XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as media="screen" when printing not user's intent

XP> XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as media="screen" when printing not user's intent

don at lexmark.com don at lexmark.com
Thu Sep 4 14:58:30 EDT 2003


Jim:

"All" is consistant with XHTML2.  See
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/2003/WD-xhtml2-20030810/abstraction.html#dt_MediaDesc

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"BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1)" <jim.bigelow at hp.com>@pwg.org on 09/04/2003
02:10:55 PM

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Subject:    XP> XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as
       media="screen"    when printing not user's intent


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.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-print-20030729/


Jim Bigelow
 Hewlett-Packard Co.







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