XP Mail Archive: Re: XP> XHTML-Print: treating a missing med

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

From: don@lexmark.com
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 14:58:30 EDT

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    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@hp.com>@pwg.org on 09/04/2003
    02:10:55 PM

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    To: w3c-html-editor@w3.org
    cc: xp@pwg.org
    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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