Re: style control and [user interface] media types from Dave Raggett on 1997-09-16 (w3c-wai-wg@w3.org from July to September 1997)

From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:43:27 -0400 ()
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
cc: dd@w3.org, w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.970916084153.-116855P-100000@hazel.hpl.hp.com>

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> The key technical idea is that the styles domain defines the type
> used to classify media, and HTML per se doesn't [technically] know
> anything but the type of text used to communicate media types to
> the stylesheet processing. 

Currently the media values are defined in the HTML4 spec as
part of the mechanism for binding HTML to style sheets.
The CSS @media attribute also makes use of the media values.

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile)
World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)

Received on Tuesday, 16 September 1997 08:44:58 UTC