[thelist] CSS image replacement and printing

kris burford kris at midtempo.net
Tue Jan 20 14:02:25 CST 2004


>I understand that you could make a print style sheet (for those browsers 
>that understand such a thing), but that would radically change the 
>"polished" graphic appeal that is the entire point of Image replacement!
>
>Does anyone have any techniques or ideas to avoid these issues?  Am I 
>overstating the problem?  This is pretty much the last issue remaining 
>that prevents me from using Image replacement, but it seems to be a tough one.

my take on it would be to think about the purposes of the visitor printing 
your page. are they printing it to see the lovely graphics? my guess would 
be not. i'd suggest that people print pages that have worthy content and 
it's the words (and, possibly, key images) that they wish to retain.

personally, the option to have print style sheets (mr meyer on alistapart 
provides an excellent primer for 'em @ 
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/) is all about removing the 
graphical surrounds. which means that image replacement and print style 
sheets can be perfect complimentary approaches.

kris
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kris burford
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