[10439] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: The use and implementation of Banner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Ball)
Mon Dec 2 17:30:09 1996
To: DELINCK@Inland.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, steve@rigel.anu.edu.au
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Dec 1996 12:32:13 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:15:36 +1100
From: Steven Ball <steve@cs.anu.edu.au>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
DELINK@Inland.com writes:
> The use and implementation of Banner
>
> I want to start by affirming my view on banner. I am not relying on
> banner to show me an index or a table of contents. My concern for
> banner was to identify printed documents. Another use could be
> navigation bars. Although, with the advent of Frames, navigation bars
> will not likely be put into banners.
Not everyone uses frames. They have various problems, and these have been
discussed previously.
> [...] A banner (I propose) would be printed on the top of each
> page.
This is the purpose of a header and/or footer. I believe there are proposals
for handling print formatting using CSS. Tthis is the approach I support.
Sorry, I don't have a reference handy.
Surely it would be better to separate the printing format of a document from
it's markup (see the entire discussion on the rationale behind CSS/DSSSL).
If you want "Page i of N" on every document you print, simply supply your
browser with a stylesheet for printing that causes that effect.
Regards,
Steve Ball
