- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Philipp Serafin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > What could a Web page do that a browser couldn't do better in the same > > situation? (The browser could offer a PDF, so having the site offer a > > PDF when there's no printer doesn't seem like a good solution.) > > One scenario could be mobile devices that really have nothing even > remotely comparable to a printing functionality. For those, it could > make sense to hide "print this page" links to provide more screen real > estate. > > I admit though, that's a rather esoteric use case ... It's a valid use case, indeed. Probably not enough to justify adding a way to detect if the UA usefully supports window.print(), though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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