[webkit-dev] a question on printing: whither WSIWYG?

[peliom at tikirobot.net]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Mike Fischer wrote:

> Am 03.10.2006 um 11:49 schrieb peliom at tikirobot.net:
>
> Well basically you are right. The stylesheet is missing when  
> printing. But this seems to be a design choice. If you look at line  
> 7 of the page source you will see the line:
>
> 	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
> Well either the page is missing a stylesheet for media="print" or  
> the given stylesheet should not be limited to media="screen".  
> Unless of course the author wanted it this way on purpose. Using  
> custom stylesheets for printing can very effectively enhance  
> readability and printability of printed web pages.

Thanks for clearing this up.

>
>
> BTW. This question has nothing to do with the development of  
> webkit. It would be better placed on web-dev- 
> request at lists.apple.com or some other HTML/CSS forum.
>


Well, my apologies.  The output was so terrible I thought it was bug  
in webkit.

I disagree this has nothing to do with webkit:  Is the webkit team  
aware that when printing half of all the web pages out there the  
output looks like doodoo?

Whatever the CSS, having the pages print out in a totally ugly way is  
just plain silly.    Surely using the "screen" stylesheet for  
printing is better than no stylesheet at all?

I propose  that WebKit use the "screen" stylesheet for printing if  
there is no "print" stylesheet present in the source document.

.pj.