Personal wishlist #5082

There should be a standard tag used to link to printable versions of web pages. Failing this, there should be some very good heuristics in the browser. No, I don't care about printing, but I do click on those little "print this page" links at every oportunity, same as I'll click on a link for a PDA or phone version of a web page when possible. Such pages tend to be much closer to the way the web should be: Devoid of stupid background colors, pointless graphics, javascript, and <blink>advertisements</blink>, and without of large sidebars. The web page sidebar is the late nineties and early naughties equivilant of the fifties tail fins on a car.

And "print this page" pages never have the dreaded "next page" link at the bottom. If I've decided to view your page, I want the whole thing, to drag off to my room and gnaw on and digest at my leisure offline; I don't want it doled out in little tidbits with a five minute delay in between each while I reposition the laptop for optimal wireless receptivity and download the next bit over a saturated phone line. So all I want is a way to view "print this page" pages by default.

Brr, it's cold. Not the most productive day ever either; I spent 2 hours fixing the remaining bugs in netcfg, but it seems that should have taken less time. I've very glad I got the new wireless card now, so I can use the net in a heated building. And I'm sorry to miss LinuxWorld this year, I had hoped to make it for at least one day and see several people again.