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by rrrx3 4439 days ago
print.css = "Hi, I need you to continue to support this increasingly smaller edge case, to make this rapidly dwindling user base happy about something that should not, under any circumstances, be happening in 2014."

Supporting the printing of pages is inefficient and wasteful. It's the IE6 argument all over again. There are more meaningful ways of both storing and distributing information digitally.

Even for atacrawl's scenario - we should be building systems that make these types of documents easier to fill out digitally than on paper. I don't know about you guys, but when I have to fill out a paper form, I get frustrated because of the near-universal poor design.

Printing should be dead. Why are we keeping it on life support?

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Also, I say this as a designer.

This article criticizes a derivative work's typography? We're really looking at a site's print.css and kicking up a fuss because it's not up to snuff?

"Here, let me print out this Daring Fireball article and mail it to my buddy in New Mexico" ?

Get the actual fuck out of here.