Browser with best CSS paged media support?

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:30:03 +0100, Andy Dingley
<dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:52:38 +0100, "PeterMcC" <peter (AT) mccourt (DOT) org.uk
wrote:

I understood that the OP was planning on writing "... a business plan, which
needs to be printed on paper to be presented to the bank."

So printed HTML is perfectly adequate.

I have to disagree here. There is for example no way to specify page
headers and footers in HTML (except to the extent that <TITLE> is used
for such).

If the aim is to provide universal access to information, use HTML. If
you want to produce a printed document, use a word-processor. (Doesn't
have to be Word, of course.) A question of appropriate tools for the
job.

If you want to provide something via HTML, but also give yourself the
best option for printing a reasonably presentable copy, then Opera 7
seems to provide the best support for the CSS page-break properties at
present.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

Thanks everyone for their responses.

I'm using an application that helps you set up a business plan(essentially
it's just a questionnaire). Now the good thing about this program is that it
stores its data in an XML file. My initial plan was to write the sections of
the business plan not covered by the questionnaire in XHTML, transform the
questionnaire XML data using XSLT to XHTML, and finally merge the results in
one document. Instead, I went with XSL:FO, which I didn't have any
experience with until yesterday. I transform both my XHTML document and the
questionnaire data to XSL:FO and run it through Apache FOP to produce a PDF.
FOP may have its limitations, but it works well enough for my purposes. The
end result is as good as anything I can produce in Word.


Thanks
-Laurens

In article <Xns93DC5F113DFEFjkorpelacstutfi (AT) 193 (DOT) 229.0.31> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Jukka K. Korpela
<jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote:

Unfortunately the method of using CSS is still rather limited in that
respect, though, depending on the nature of the document, it might work
reasonably, if the page is printed Opera or Mozilla. The specifically
page-oriented features of CSS work rather poorly at present, but for a
business plan, it would probably be sufficient to create an edited copy
of the page with "forced" page breaks (e.g. with page-break-before:
always) using CSS. And this might mean that the author needs to work on
that copy iteratively, using the Print Preview function of the browser
to decide on the page breaks.

This is pretty much what I do with materials for my class, when
there is a particularly bad page break on the uncontrolled first
attempt at printing.

Be aware that Mozilla will not break pages on paper quite the same
as it does in Print Preview -- an annoying bug that is still with us
in 1.4 but I hope will be fixed un bel di.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

"Laurens" <spam (AT) block (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,


Which browser has the best CSS paged media support? [1]

I'm about to write a business plan, which needs to be printed on paper to
be
presented to the bank. Now I cringe at doing this in Word, as I'm far more
comfortable with hand-coding HTML and CSS(though I've never used the
print-specific CSS elements).


Thanks
-Laurens

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html

Stay with Word.
Or with TeX if you prefer to focus on coding rather then on content.

Microsoft Word document object model is the best for printing page layout.

Forget about page breaks in the HTML document.
They will be useful only when something like <PAGEBODY> will appear.
Currently they are just nothing.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://blocknote.net

In article <5eo3kvoism5e1h8k3h5msdd8r94dlrcpc8 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Robert G.
Eldridge wrote:

I do though like the way it places <thead> content at the top of each
page when <tbody> content extends over several pages.

Well, why are you using <thead> then?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/ta...#idx-row_group

When long tables are printed, the table head and foot information may
be repeated on each page that contains table data.

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