Re: background-print

Also sprach L. David Baron:

 > > If you do it hackily, so that 'background' is only honored if it
 > > appears in a stylesheet specifically linked with media="print", you're
 > > introducing novel and imo really ugly behavior into the platform.
 > > This is akin to Opera's behavior in fullscreen being based off the
 > > presence or absence of a stylesheet with media=projection in the page,
 > > which is really nasty.
 > 
 > Agreed.  I think this sort of behavior makes some sense for an
 > implementation that assumes content authors never consider its
 > behavior when developing their content, but is a bad idea as a
 > standardized behavior or as a behavior to be used by an
 > implementation that authors are likely to care about, because of the
 > confusion (about expected results and about the model underlying
 > them) that such testing would lead to.

When the user presses F11 in Opera, @media projection is honored. If
no such style sheet exists, @media screen is honored. As such, Opera
either goes into projection mode or screen mode. I don't see why this
is so bad -- certainly no worse than not supporting @media projection
at all?

-h&kon
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