My personal experience, and the experience of (non-professional) people I've discussed this with is in line with yours, Owen. If I push the "Printer Friendly" button, I expect to see what the printer will print and have the opportunity to change my mind if I don't like what I see.
Frankly, part of the reason I prefer this option, is that I can cut and paste the content to save or send. Too often those options on the original site save or send the link and then -- in a year's time -- you have a useless link. Further, as a user, the display of the content in a printable format, is what I expect to see when I select the "printable format" type button, that's what I expect to see...and users' expectations are critical in this applicable. Katie > > Without a 'Printer Friendly' pop-up, they would need to use the >bowser 'Page >> Preview' to view the page in this manner. > >If I click on a print button on a web page, I expect to /see/ the >printer-friendly version. If the button just pops up the browser's >print dialog, my reaction is to wonder whether I'm really going to get >a printer-friendly version. Am I out of touch/crazy/paranoid? > >> if there's a particular page that people are urged to >> print, you can just include a button that calls upon the system's >> printing mechanism, and you don't need a separate page > >Our goal is to make pages in general print-friendly, and to offer the >print option for particularly print-oriented pages. > >When talking about the context of a web application that users will be >[-come] familiar with, we might be able to make the assumption that >they will learn that pages are printer-friendly by default, but I >don't think you could assume that users at large would know that. Even >a web-savvy user doesn't know ahead of time whether the page has a >print stylesheet, unless it's by experience. > >Or is my experience out of touch with what others have observed? > > Owen > >---- >Web Developer >Athens County Public Libraries >http://www.myacpl.org >________________________________________________________________ >Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help -- ---------------- Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
