Hello! I'm a Mozilla developer, and I have a slightly off-topic question for the members of css-discuss.
As I'm sure many of you have noticed, browsers don't print backgrounds by default. As David Dorward notes [1], this is in large part to avoid wasting ink printing pages that weren't designed to be printed. We'd like to make it possible for designers who /do/ take the time to consider printing to use backgrounds and have them printed by default. My suggestion was to automatically allow background printing for any pages that import an explicit 'print' style sheet, the logic being that if you've taken the trouble to provide a dedicated style sheet for print, then we should trust that you are not going to abuse the printer and allow you use of its ink for your backgrounds. (This is similar to how Opera employs lots of heuristics to tweak layouts for display on cell phones, but gives the designer full control if he or she has specified a style sheet explicitly for 'handheld'.) My superreviewer David Baron is concerned that this kind of switch would be confusing to web authors. E.g. importing an empty print style sheet would suddenly cause all backgrounds to print. So we want to know what you think: would a switch like this be confusing? Is there a better way to handle this kind of switch? What are your thoughts on this problem? For those who want more details, the bug report is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381466 ~fantasai [1] http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/91007 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
