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Ben Trafford wrote:
>
> At 12:47 PM 10/22/2004, DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
>
>> Not when you're sending the data to a mobile phone screen that only
>> has one
>> font. Assumptions about visual styling can still get you into trouble,
>> which
>> is why you use a different stylesheet to convert your semantic markup to
>> whatever the mobile phone can handle, both in terms of visual styling and
>> linking.
>
>
> Definitely a good point.
>
> I've always liked the fallback mechanism the Open eBook
> publication format uses
> (http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.2/index.htm). The idea is that
> you can specify display elements with alternate elements, depending on
> the device viewing said element.
>
> That'd be quite handy on the Web, methinks. I'm surprised it
> hasn't been picked up, especially in regards to the display of alternate
> stylesheets. Sadly, this is still in the purview of scripting tricks.
Why scripting tricks? e.g.
<head>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="screen"
href="css/styles.css"/>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="print"
href="css/print.css"/>
...
</head>
best,
-Rob
>
> --->Ben
>
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