Jon wrote:
>
> While building a printable six month calendar I'm trying to solve a
> difficult problem, namely printing background CSS colors. Let me first
> tell you what I have tried:

[non-semantic markup hacks snipped]

>
> PS. I hope someone smarter than me reads this.... :-)
> A link to the calendar: http://bookevent.dk/JSCalendar/calendar.htm
> EXT in effect: http://bookevent.dk/JSCalendar/GenCalendar.htm

Your post begs the question: What is there about this calendar that
makes it useful for me to use up the ink in my printer's color cartridge?

The months have only 24 days, which is weird. There's no scroll bar, so
it can't be that I've just got my viewport smaller than you foresaw, right?

Without JS, there's only an empty page. If you want to require JS for
this, okay, but wouldn't you like to at least tell the non-JS-visitor
that JS is required to see/use the whatever-it-is?

Your texts are flexibly sized, or at least, I can resize them in FF. But
the grid lines remain fixed, so they conflict with the texts.
Actually, there seems to be a slight mismatch by default.

I don't know what you mean by EXT but that page merely provides a an
extra, empty column containing nothing more than the ability to get rid
of the column. Reminds me of the machine which, when you flick the
switch to turn it on, extends a mechanical arm to flick the switch back
and turn itself off. That's all it does. :-)

Is a string like 30-06-2007 really the date format used in Denmark? With
dashes, I would have expected the year first, as in 2007-06-30.

Regarding PDFs: I hate 'em (or maybe I just hate Adobe Reader...). I'd
have to be convinced of the usefulness of your bg coloring before I'd
support the PDF way.

--
John
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