css page media, size

[Nik Coughin]

Doesn't print in landscape as requested in the CSS. I want it to work under
IE but doesn't work in Mozilla either. Works in Opera. Any ideas?

http://www.nrkn.com/landscape/

 

[rf]

Doesn't print in landscape as requested in the CSS. I want it to work under
IE but doesn't work in Mozilla either. Works in Opera. Any ideas?

http://www.nrkn.com/landscape/

The size property is CSS3. Do you really expect a four year old browser to
support CSS3? It doesn't even support CSS 2.1 properly.

 

[Nik Coughin]

The size property is CSS3. Do you really expect a four year old
browser to support CSS3? It doesn't even support CSS 2.1 properly.

Hmmm, I have it in a CSS2 reference, but there you go then. Should have
thought of that. Thanks. Don't suppose you know of any other way to do
this?

 

[rf]

Nik Coughin wrote

Hmmm, I have it in a CSS2 reference, but there you go then. Should have
thought of that. Thanks. Don't suppose you know of any other way to do
this?

Hey, you're right. I just found it in the CSS2 spec. It has been removed in
the CSS2.1 spec and then put back again in the CSS3 spec. And people wonder
why the *browsers* don't work as expected

In any case if it is not supported by IE or Mozilla there is little you can
do, other than asking your viewer politely to change her settings.

 

[Nik Coughin]

In any case if it is not supported by IE or Mozilla there is little
you can do, other than asking your viewer politely to change her
settings.

Hmmm, yeah it was the viewer requesting it. It's for a table that is being
autogenerated and sent by email and then printed automatically at their end
upon receipt, and they wanted it to print landscape. Looks like it's a case
of "that's too bad".

 

[rf]

Nik wrote

Hmmm, yeah it was the viewer requesting it. It's for a table that is being
autogenerated and sent by email and then printed automatically at their end
upon receipt, and they wanted it to print landscape. Looks like it's a case
of "that's too bad".

I would agree. *EVERY* other application that can print has a page setup
dialog or something for the user to drive and make decisions with. Why
should driving a browser be different? Hang on, it's not even a browser,
it's an email client

 

[Nico Schuyt]

Hmmm, I have it in a CSS2 reference, but there you go then. Should
have thought of that. Thanks. Don't suppose you know of any other
way to do this?

http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/about.asp

Nico

 

[Toby Inkster]

Doesn't print in landscape as requested in the CSS. I want it to work under
IE but doesn't work in Mozilla either. Works in Opera. Any ideas?

IE and Mozilla don't support anywhere near as much of CSS 2 as Opera does.
(Opera supports *all* of CSS 2.1 except a few obscure values for
list-style-type, plus it supports a lot of the CSS 2 stuff that was left
out of 2.1.)