>I politely disagree. The original intent Tim Berners Lee had [1] was to create a navigable way of finding documents and information. Not printable.

And I politely disagree right back. My particular problem with this has to do with purchasing. When I make a purchase at work, I need something I can attach to a purchase request as a quote. Note that this is often not a formal quote, but rather evidence of what whatever I want to buy will cost.

A simple way to do this is to print a shopping cart to PDF and attach that to the PR. Some web sites do this just fine and others do it horribly. They should do better.

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arcanemachiner 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This might be more of an edge case than people who complain about websites that require JS, which is itself a number that rounds to basically zero.

Maybe you could capture the full height of the website as a screenshot? There are extensions that do this, and there is some degree of native support for the feature nowadays.

	▲	f30e3dfed1c9 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe it's a weird, unusual edge case but maybe not. Lots of people need to keep records of various things for various reasons. In my personal life, I also "print" lots of stuff from various web sites to PDF for record-keeping purposes. This is absolutely routine for me, I do it all the time. Thankfully, most of the web sites for which I want to do this — banks and other financial institutions, but others also — have easy ways to create printable receipts because they know that people want to do things like this. And you can disagree, but when I come across some e-commerce site where printing what I want or need to PDF doesn't work because the site just makes a horrible unreadable mess out of it, I think, well here's a set of "web developers" who are just not good at what they do. (And yes, I fall back to screen shots when I must.)
	▲	adrian_b 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The resolution of screenshots is typically unacceptable for most uses, especially when the bitmap were scaled, which would introduce blurring.