CSS Media?

[Ascendancy]

I was viewing the source of a website I found and I saw this in the head:

<link href="/newcss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />

I understand what everything in there means except for the media="screen". Can anybody explain that?

[Kravvitz]

These explain:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/styles.html#adef-media
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-media-descriptors

[Ascendancy]

Oh, so it doesn't really need to be there?

*Technically*

[Kravvitz]

Yes, that attribute is optional. If you leave it out, it defaults to "screen".