Specifying style notation in <link>

Hakon Lie (howcome@w3.org)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:36:15 +0100


Michael Seaton writes:

> There should also be some way of associating a style sheet with certain
> display properties or platforms, although it is not clear to me how
> this could be gone about.

We plan to have support for multiple media inside CSS2. Citing from [1]:

> Could one come up with a simple set of binary conditions to describe
> an output medium? How about:
>
> color, mono, gray
> hicolor (>8 bits), medcolor (8 bits), locolor(<8 bits)
> paper, tty, bitmap, speech, braille
> hires, lores
> overhead
>
> Then, conditional rules could look like:
>
> :hires & color & bitmap:
> H1 { font-size: 4 }
>
> :paper:
> H1 { font-size: 24pt }
>
> :overhead:
> h1 { font-size: 60pt }

[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/css/draft5.html

Regards,

-h&kon

Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.w3.org/People/howcome howcome@w3.org