On Wed, 07 May 2003 18:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Brion Vibber
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> gave utterance to the following:
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
<link
title="Printable version"
rel="alternate"
media="print"
href="http://....?printable=yes" />
why waste precious capacity generating a different version of the page
for
printing? A print stylesheet (or an @media section in the main
stylesheet)
is much more efficient.
Because we want the poor saps who use real browsers to have a clean,
printable version too? :) Of course, if they can use the <link> tag,
their mythical browser probably supports @media sections as well.
Last time I checked, IE handles print stylesheets and @media just fine.
Netscape 4 doesn't do @media, and I think that's the only browser with more
than 1% usage that misses out.
And I thought that the #1 problem with the internet was that the poor saps
are NOT using a real browser :-)
--
Richard Grevers
Confucius say: People having gift for gab know not how to wrap it up