Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
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I find that a separate print style sheet greatly reduces maintenance.
Not necessarily. Depends on how the CSS is organized, I think.
For one, you don't have to pore through hundreds of lines of screen
styles looking for each print style.
The problem with that is some styles I often want for both screen and
print. That means either duplicating them in the print stylesheet, or
loading 2 stylesheets. Too much trouble for me to keep that stuff
straight. Besides, I never intermix screen only and print rules.
I prefer to use 1 stylesheet and section it off by media type. I've been
doing it this way for so long I know exactly where to look for certain
rules.
@media screen, projection, print {
global rules like heading fonts, floating images, etc.
}
@media screen, projection {
screen only rules like navigation, background images, etc.
}
@media print {
print only rules, like display:none for navigation, etc.
}
I suppose you could stick handheld in there, too, but I don't bother. If
they get info sans CSS, that's fine with me.
Download time would be next to nothing.
It is. IIRC, at least some browsers retrieve all stylesheets whether
they need them or not, then apply the applicable rules depending on what
the user requests. It's fewer server calls putting them into 1 external
stylesheet.
If your CSS is huge, however, then you should rethink a few things. KISS
comes to mind. :)
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Berg
