Nick Boalch wrote:
>Steve Summit wrote:
>> 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?
>
> As to fonts, if you can come up with a font that's suitable for both
> screen and print, you could make millions.
But I don't specify fonts in HTML, so that's a nonissue for me.
Let the browser pick a font that looks good on the screen it's
displaying on when it's displaying on a screen, and a font that
looks good on the printer it's printing on when it's printing.
(After all, it's in a much better position to know that than I am!)
> 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.
Nothing personal, Nick, but that's a nonsensical argument! HTML
was not designed to, and some few of us do not try to use it to,
"engineer a document for display" on screen *or* paper. For a
document that has only its structure encoded, the web browser
doesn't have anything more to go on to make the on-screen
decisions than it does to make the paper decisions. If you buy
the "HTML encodes structure, not display" argument, then it's
just as much the browser's job to figure out a decent paper
representation as it is to figure out the screen representation.
(But yes, I realize full well that the "HTML encodes structure,
not display" argument has by now been thoroughly ignored,
repudiated, and forgotten, and that everyone today believes that
trying to encode a web page's exact on-screen appearance via HTML
is a fine thing to do. Matter of fact, that's part of the reason
that printing tends to suck.)
Steve Summit
scs@eskimo.com
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