> Web printing 'was' notorious difficult for quite awhile, from the
developer's point of view as well as the user's. The primary reason was
at first the lack of tools at the disposition of the webscreen designer,
then later, the lack of faithful implementation of CSS (cascading style
sheets) standards by the browser makers (ie, IE).
This technical hurdle doesn't really exist anymore since (most)
standards are fairly well integrated now and new ones have evolved
rapidly to keep pace with needs.
Couple of months ago I tried to use CSS instead of
nested tables to control simple text placement.
No way could I do that -- then current (Aug '04)
IE and Mozilla (also tested Opera) implemented basic
CSS text positioning differently. Hair pulling out
time and/or beating head against wall time. I'm
guessing everyone is still using nested tables to
position text as a least common denominator instead
of doing it the "correct" CSS way. Anyway, I'm
flagging that CSS is not at all implemented
consistently across browsers. I'm not saying that
by using some subset of CSS that you couldn't
get it to work to print pretty pages, but if you
go into CSS cold with a book in hand about how
you are supposed to format pages with CSS be
prepared for a rude awakening.
Heitzso
