- From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 11:48:06 PST
- To: www-html@w3.org
> > There should be nothing in an HTML > >document that is specific to a particular device. > How is the <a> tag implemented on the printer - it is very specific > to the interactive platform. No, it isn't specific to the interactive platform. If you use bad HTML printing software (i.e. - what's built into most browsers), it ignores it. That's always an option. Good software can be configured to present the URL inline, or to make it a footnote or endnote. > It is a question of what other people get when they print out > the things that I present on the web. > In a plaintext document (like report from a database) I might put a comment > "Print this document as HTML then page headers will stay in place" > In Mosaic you can choose to print as HTML but some browsers dont offer > that and if there is a document with mixed markup text and plaintext or pre > then I will get all the markup printed so this is no solution. Like I said, most browsers have lousy printing software. The solution is to beat on the authors of the browsers to provide better software. Until they fix things, a work-around is to provide a postscript or flat text version of the page, formatted the way you want it. <mike
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