- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:25:07 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, Paul Cotton <pcotton@microsoft.com>, Noah Mendelsohn <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 11:40:13 PM, Norman wrote: NW> The CSS used in the WebArch document to make the constraints, NW> principles, good practices, and the story stand out exercise a bug in NW> IE's support for printing. It seems sort of rude to publish a document NW> we know some large percentage of the world can't print properly. I would rather give them a PDF to print. We all know what the PDF acronym expands to ;-) NW> I did a little digging and I've changed the CSS that's used by the NW> editor's copy of the document: NW> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/Overview.html NW> It's unchanged on the screen, but it prints correctly in any browser, NW> including IE. NW> The price we pay for this fix is that the printed rendering isn't as NW> sophisticated as the online rendering. I think I can pay that price NW> and sleep comfortably at night. [snide comments about paying a higher NW> price already on another issue deleted--ed.] Rather than giving a lower quality result for users of more compliant browsers (Mac/IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror) and for print-specific CSS engines (Prince, Acrobat Web Capture), I would have preferred to shield the print css from poor implementations. This can be easily done by using child selectors, which Win/IE does not support. NW> Please give it a whirl and report your experiences. NW> Be seeing you, NW> norm -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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