- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:33:44 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> What I am saying is that whether or not backgrounds should be printed or not
> depends more on the user's hardware than on the design of the webpage. This
> makes the user's defaults more important than the authors.
That's exactly what I do, too: when I print on the color printer, I turn
backgrounds on; when I print on the black-and-white one, I turn them
off. Pages usually don't look right when I do the reverse.
Given how often people print on black-and-white printers (even if they
have a color printer as well), maybe style sheet writers should not just
include one print style sheet, but two:
<link... media="print and (monochrome)">
<link... media="print and (color)">
I think it is OK if the browser remembers the settings for each printer
separately (so that I don't have to change the settings when I change
printers), but I agree with Allan that it would be surprising to the
user (and thus wrong) if anything in the document (such as the existence
of a print style sheet) changes the settings that the user has selected.
Bert
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