Steve Summit wrote:
[ web browsers crap at printing ]
>> 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.
OK, fair enough. This would be nice functionality.
>> 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.
I *know* what HTML is supposed to do (indeed my entire job revolves around
trying to raise awareness of accessibility issues in internet design and
push back the onrushing hordes of people who encode information in such
a display-orientated way).
However, a normal web browser is designed to display a marked-up document in
a fashion engineered for display on screen: everything it does revolves
around screen-based display. There simply isn't software capable of taking
a given marked-up document and arbitrarily deciding how it would best be
displayed in print: you need a human to do that.
Nick
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