Alternate external style sheets

[Luigi Donatello Asero]

What is the difference between the following external style sheets?
What does application/postscript mean?
<LINK media="print" title="The manual in postscript"
type="application/postscript"
rel="alternate"
href="http://someplace.com/manual/postscript.ps">

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#linksandss

<link href="../sv/test1.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print">

 

[Michael Wilcox]

What is the difference between the following external style sheets?
What does application/postscript mean?
<LINK media="print" title="The manual in postscript"
type="application/postscript"
rel="alternate"
href="http://someplace.com/manual/postscript.ps">

This tag defines an alternative version of the current document. From
the specs, "When [rel="alternate" is] used together with the media
attribute, it implies a version designed for a different medium (or media)."

application/postscript is the MIME type of the alternate document. See
<ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types>.

 

[Steve Pugh]

What is the difference between the following external style sheets?

One of them is a stylesheet, the other one is not.

What does application/postscript mean?
<LINK media="print" title="The manual in postscript"
type="application/postscript"
rel="alternate"
href="http://someplace.com/manual/postscript.ps">

This is not a stylesheet. It's an alternative form of the current
document. In this case the alternative is a postcript version intended
for printing.

<link href="../sv/test1.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print">

This is a stylesheet intended to style the current document when
printed.

Steve