[sclug] CSS

[Chris Aitken]

> > > You seem to want CSS to allow you to create print result. 
> The web is 
> > > not a print medium. This is why CSS behaves the way it does. I 
> > > recommend reading this:
> > > http://www.grauw.nl/articles/css-faq.php
> > 
> > Yes and no. You can create a print style sheet, which most browsers 
> > will use when orinting, or print previewing.
>
> Unless you specifically say otherwise (through the 
> white-space property[1], for instance), the text is going to 
> wrap anyway. But you are correct, you *can* have a print 
> stylesheet, but the web is *still* not a print medium. No 
> print designer is going to use CSS to lay out their page 
> because print design requires far more precision than CSS 
> will ever allow. So the print stylesheet just allows *web* 
> pages to be printed in a fashion more suitable for reading 
> off a piece of paper.

I agree that thw web is not a print medium, but as you have said "the print
stylesheet just allows *web* pages to be printed in a fashion more suitable
for reading off a piece of paper.". People will always print pages off to
read them.

I can just see a print designer sitting there with content in one hand, and
a CSS layout in the other!


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