Re: Please Help Me Understand A Printer-Friendly CSS....
On Apr 20, 8:36 pm, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb .me.ukwrote:
Well, that's precisely the matter at hand: can it, or not? The book
seems to say it's possible...I mean, it had two pictures of the site,
a before and after, both within the Apple Safari web browser (though,
curiously, no URL field), which seems to suggest such a WYSIWYG page
possible. So I'm really puzzled how that could be, how CSS could be
used to generate a page based on another page.
If it's actually not possible, then those two photos were really
misleading, especially in their before-and-after placement. Being
inside browser windows, it seemed to suggest that the code the author
provided could "dynamicall y" create a "stand-alone" WYSIWYG print-page
in the browser....
Ugh, I think I will just go back to website content-creation as
opposed to structural-construction and tweaking...bleh ....
On Apr 20, 8:36 pm, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb .me.ukwrote:
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The problem is the whole idea of "such a thing" (WYSIWYG print preview
in browser window). It is ill-defined and even those bits where one
can make a stab at defining the "expected" behaviour, CSS has no hope
of even getting close to doing it.
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Even the rather limited "change the page so links include the text of
the href attribute" can't be done in a cross-browser way (yet).
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<SNIP>
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The problem is the whole idea of "such a thing" (WYSIWYG print preview
in browser window). It is ill-defined and even those bits where one
can make a stab at defining the "expected" behaviour, CSS has no hope
of even getting close to doing it.
>
Even the rather limited "change the page so links include the text of
the href attribute" can't be done in a cross-browser way (yet).
seems to say it's possible...I mean, it had two pictures of the site,
a before and after, both within the Apple Safari web browser (though,
curiously, no URL field), which seems to suggest such a WYSIWYG page
possible. So I'm really puzzled how that could be, how CSS could be
used to generate a page based on another page.
If it's actually not possible, then those two photos were really
misleading, especially in their before-and-after placement. Being
inside browser windows, it seemed to suggest that the code the author
provided could "dynamicall y" create a "stand-alone" WYSIWYG print-page
in the browser....
Ugh, I think I will just go back to website content-creation as
opposed to structural-construction and tweaking...bleh ....
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Ben.
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