Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Web Printing API (Issue #910)

Hi @GrapeGreen. We are looking at this in our W3C TAG breakout session today.

We have a lot of concerns about this, and don't think it should be added to the web platform in its current form.

The web has always been separate from the operating system, and implementing this proposal would take capabilities of the client's environment and hand them off to the server. Not only does this pose a large privacy risk, some of which you've outlined in your explainer, but it also moves the boundary of where the web ends and the user/client's environment takes over.

But most importantly, the use case seems rather niche, so the privacy risk is not balanced by a comensurate gain in user experience. Therefore, we are not convinced that the trade-off is worth it. We wondered if this might be better tackled with a browser plug-in.

We are proposing to close this review issue. You are welcome to come back to us with questions, or with a substantial re-architecture.

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