On 2017-03-05 01:02, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Many website nowadays have their own "Print" buttons that deliver what the designers consider "printer-friendly" versions of their pages. But even if I ignore those and use SeaMonkey's own "Print" function, many sites outsmart me by serving their "printer-friendly" versions. A prime example is <http://www.nytimes.com>. Pick any page and print it, and you'll find that you've lost all the graphics, fonts, and layout and gotten only a plain-text version of the page.
Others have responded with suggestions, but here's one part that hasn't come up yet.
HTML style sheets can be tailored for various media, as the author of a page may wish to tailor it to different devices (including things like screens, printed output, and even screen readers that speak the contents of the page for the visually impaired). If you look at the HTML source for an NY Times article, you'll find it lists multiple style sheets, and one of them will be for print. Here's an excerpt from the source from a semi-randomly chosen article on their site:
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="https://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20170302-131745/css/article/story/styles-print.css";
So the article itself specifies a different style sheet for printing. Your browser is just following the instructions in the HTML, as standards say it should.
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