And with light/dark mode support and CSS variables the colours in a print mode should be easy to define and support.
replySo you're primarily left with hiding content that shouldn't be printed (like navigation or menu buttons), defining page breaks, and some other quality of life changes for printing.
Yeah. And out in the real world people are pretty tolerant of minor issues with printing (imperfect page breaks) because it's a miracle when any website prints at all!
replyI was recently surprised to notice a PDF download link on a blog post from Anthropic. My first thought was "would anybody want to read a blog post in PDF rather than HTML format?"
replyThis comment suggests the answer is yes.
I think on corporate blog posts, they have regulatory impact, so that is perhaps additionally about legal teams — printouts of web pages end up in legal filings and discussed in meetings etc.?
replyHappy paralegals are a finite resource.
But yeah. Someone, somewhere, is printing your web pages for their own reasons, and you may never know whether poor printability cost you.
Absolutely yes. It’s offline friendly, free of distractions, stays on page between reading sessions, and easy for marks and annotations.
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