> Nick 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?
>
Most modern browsers print-render documents relatively well given decent
code to chew on. This is one of the advantages of using stylesheets in your
code: most CSS-aware browsers will understand media-type tags well enough to
print nicely.
All you have to do is create a stylesheet for "print media", and get the
browser to load that one up prior to rendering your page.
[Note to HTML FAQ authors: you _do_ use stylesheets, don't you?]
I agree this is slightly off-topic, but I think the authors of a page have
to accept at least half the responsibility for this one.
jdv
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