Re: WebArch print CSS changes

/ Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> was heard to say:
| 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 ;-)

I plan to produce a PDF, but I still think it's a little rude to publish
something we know breaks in 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.

If provide that alternative, I'll use it. I did as much as I felt
I could at the present time.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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