Steve Summit wrote:
>> On this, completely unrelated, issue of printing, it's certainly worth
>> providing a version of your FAQ specifically designed for print, since
>> most web browsers make a godawful job of rendering a page for printing
>
> Grump.
>
> There are basically two entities in the world producing web browsers.
> There are several skillion entities producing web pages. Why should all
> the rest of us have to do extra work (a skillion times over) to work
> around the fact that the browsers can't be bothered to print well? Why
> can't they do better?
The answer is largely to do with fonts and layout. Things on screen work
best laid out in one column, things in print work best laid out in two.
As to fonts, if you can come up with a font that's suitable for both
screen and print, you could make millions.
Web browsers aren't capable of making the sorts of decisions necessary to
turn a document engineered for display on-screen and turn it into a
document engineered for display on paper.
Cheers,
Nick
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