Fw: XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as media="screen" when printing not user's intent from Masayasu Ishikawa on 2003-09-04 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 2003)

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From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) <jim.bigelow@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:10:55 -0400
Subject: XHTML-Print: treating a missing media attribute as media="screen" when printing not user's intent
To: w3c-html-editor@w3.org
Cc: xp@pwg.org
Message-ID: <020A3CF87FB5AC47AA67966B33845755050DB594@xboi22.boise.itc.hp.com>

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.