Re: draft-mutz-http-attributes-01
Andy Mutz (mutz@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 07 Aug 1996 14:04:01 PDT
Regarding draft-mutz-http-attributes-01.txt,
Dave Raggett writes
> UA-media-screen is inadequate to distinguish between scrolling and
> paged UI presentations. This is needed to obtain different versions
> of documents or style sheets etc. according to the presentation type.
>
> I suggest that the list of media tokens is extended to allow
> UA-media-screen-paged with UA-media-screen being taken to imply
> a scrolling presentation.
I don't believe I understand the issues a non-scrolling display
raises when interacting with other attributes such as screen size.
If for example, the available vertical size of the URL is longer
than the size of the display, how is this resolved? Is a paged
resource with pages longer than requested better or worse than a
vertically long resource? How does one calculate the vertical
length of a resource when local treatment of fonts will cause the
length to vary?
I agree non-scrolling displays are relevant and the tag
UA-media-screen-paged will be added to the draft.
Andy Mutz.
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