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That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read c

That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Bloated pages (both visually and in terms of file size) are a problem, but linking directly to printer-friendly pages is not a suitable fix, IMHO. Avoiding advertising also bothers me (even more than the actual advertisements bother me) in general, because I like information, and information generally costs money to acquire - especially high-quality, reliable information. Newspapers and their investigative journalism appear to be going away, and that makes me sad. Note: I'm not familiar with Inc. magazine, so discussing quality journalism may or may not be entirely relevant in this context.

Nwallins 17y ago
> The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. This is easily rectified by a single click and drag to resize the browser window to your preferred column width. I for one much prefer print links for reading articles.
- octane 17y ago
  I would rather click zero times and just read the damn thing. If you don't like ads, block them. I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design.
  - Nwallins 17y ago
    > I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design. I totally agree. Unfortunately, many commercial pages present poorly-formatted text framed by blinking or brightly-colored distractions. I exercise a bit of user intervention to load the print link -- I just want the text, and I can size the column(s) easily.
hasseg 17y ago
> That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Best of both worlds: Open the "printer friendly" version of an article and execute the readability javascript bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Nwallins 17y ago

> The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. This is easily rectified by a single click and drag to resize the browser window to your preferred column width. I for one much prefer print links for reading articles.

octane 17y ago
I would rather click zero times and just read the damn thing. If you don't like ads, block them. I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design.
- Nwallins 17y ago
  > I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design. I totally agree. Unfortunately, many commercial pages present poorly-formatted text framed by blinking or brightly-colored distractions. I exercise a bit of user intervention to load the print link -- I just want the text, and I can size the column(s) easily.

hasseg 17y ago

> That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Best of both worlds: Open the "printer friendly" version of an article and execute the readability javascript bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/