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Comment by RyJones | Hacker News Reader

page load times go up

Unless you’re doing something silly a button can’t be more than a hundred bytes or so. That’s only significant on a 90s era cell phone.

Then again most browsers have a print button.

I'm glad you reposted your comment.

If you want to read the data behind many of the decisions, read these papers [0].

[0] https://exp-platform.com

That page has 30 papers so it is basically a (hopefully unintentional) "go fuck yourself".

Additionally, that page tripped Canvas Blocker a half dozen times..so I intentionally told it where to go.

you're right. I was responding to the initial, deleted comment.

Yes, the browser has a print function, although you may need a CSS code specific for printing rather than screen, if you want a good result. (If you do not use any CSS at all (which is not so common these days), then you probably don't need a CSS specific for printing either, though.)

They also won't have to include the print stylesheet (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Printing#...)

Can’t you just load that when they click it?

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Back in 1995 all websites shared one global stylesheet.

Every time a new rule was added, you had to wait up to 24 hours for the css servers to propagate.

There is also bloat from the UI perspective. If you keep adding features they will get harder for users to discover.

You have to delete something every once in a while to make room for something new.

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