Printing the Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap

Congratulations on producing a very valuable document, the "Mobile Web for 
Social Development Roadmap" [1]  I hope you will consider this comment on 
it:

In general, I think it's desirable for W3C documents to be readable in 
print as well as interactively.  I think that's particularly true of a 
document like this, which is specifically discussing the needs of users 
who may not today have access to desktop-grade systems, if they have 
access at all.  Also, even in highly developed areas, this document may of 
interest to more non-technical readers than is typical of W3C notes. 

The tables and images in this document seem not to have been coded and 
styled for legible printing.  Print preview in Firefox shows many of them 
clipping on the right, or otherwise mangled.  The tables appear to be 
particularly valuable parts of this work, and it's unfortunate that they 
don't print properly.  Having worked as an editor on W3C Recommendations, 
I know that this is a nuissance, that addressing it well requires testing 
in multiple browsers and with different default font-sizes.  Indeed, I'm 
not sure whether there are solutions that work well for every user agent 
and default font size, but in my experience one can find approaches that 
work well almost all the time.  I think this should be addressed  Thank 
you very much. 

Noah

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mw4d-roadmap-20091208/

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Noah Mendelsohn 
IBM Corporation
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Cambridge, MA 02142
1-617-693-4036
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Received on Friday, 11 December 2009 22:41:48 UTC