media="screen" vs media="all"

[ewwatson]

Hello, so originally I had media="all" in my site but I wanted to do a print and handheld version as well. So I recently changed it to media="screen" and added the print and handheld version also - it seemed more clear-cut to me to do it that way. Basically your either way you slice it, your either adding rules or taking them away with the other two media types. So I know it can be done either way, but in your opinion which method do you guys prefer and why? I am spending alot of time on each and I want to do it correct the first time (otherwise I'll probably have to redo it).

It would be more clear to me if it was just an issue of media="handheld" vs yadayada. But now, with css3 we have media queries. Which direction do you guys see all this going and how are you responding to right now as you write your code? Thanks a bunch, take care!

[skunkbad]

media="all" would include the print and handheld devices. If you have a print stylesheet, and don't declare your screen version as screen, then you will have to fight with the cascade of all of the rules that are applied by the screen stylesheet. To me, it's much easier to just declare the screen stylesheet as screen, and the print as print.

I took a look at media queries, and I do think that they are the answer to stylesheets for small screen devices. I couldn't find any other reason to need media queries, but that was based on limited reading. I'm excited about the future of web development and CSS3.