Subject: Re: Making the best of shovelware From: Bill Smith Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:13:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: Making the best of shovelware From: Bill Smith Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:13:41 -0400
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Regarding difficulty printing a "chunked" article:
Solution: Do what ZDNet and some other sites do and have a link to a
separate "printer-friendly" version of the article. If you're generating
content from a properly
structured database, it shouldn't require any extra human effort.

-- Bill Smith

Suzanne Lainson wrote:

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>
> >If text window is a single screen and navigation is consistently
> placed so
> >one need not even move the mouse to click but can walk throught the
> pages
> >bang bang bang it can make the reading a lot nicer.  It's a lot
> easier
> >than scrolling.
>
> But this is not preferable if the document cannot be printed or saved
> as a
> single file.
>
> Suzanne
>
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