- From: Ludger Bünger <ludger.buenger@realobjects.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:16:29 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, www-style@w3.org
fantasai schrieb: > Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> >> Ludger Bünger wrote: >>> Because some do like to have this info in their printouts and others >>> do not? >> >> Some _users_ or some _authors_? >> >> For the user, UAs typically provide a preference UI to control this >> sort of thing. >> >> For the author, I don't see why what they like matters; the user is >> the one who's ending up with the printout. > > a) Not all CSS applications are web browsers. PrinceXML, for example, > enables the use of CSS for publications like books, manuals, and > theses. > > b) In a web browser the user should be allowed to override the author's > header styles, but it is quite reasonable for the author to be able > to specify different header content and style if the user doesn't > particularly care. For example, the CSS specifications could print the > title, page number, url, and official date of publication rather than > the date of printing. Driving directions could specify headers with > the > the starting address, ending address, site homepage URL, and date of > retrieval and leave out the cropped, unreadable, and useless CGI URL. > > ~fantasai > Thank you, Elika, for wording exactly what I indented to say too. Since our product 'PDFreactor' is a direct competitor of Prince, I was thinking exactly the same: Media type 'print' applies to far more than just browsers and there are tons of use-cases for CSS styled 'print'. And regarding Boris' concerns about users possibly losing control: Last time I checked the standard, 'user important' stylesheets were the very highest in the cascade... I'm not aware anyone ever considered changing this... Best regards, Ludger Bünger -- Dipl-Inf. Ludger Bünger Product Development - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RealObjects GmbH Altenkesseler Str. 17/B4 66115 Saarbrücken, Germany Tel +49 (0)681 98579 0 Fax +49 (0)681 98579 29 http://www.realobjects.com ludger.buenger@realobjects.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Saarbrücken, HRB 12016 Managing Directors: Michael Jung, Markus Neurohr VAT-ID: DE210373115
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