IKEA website shows a verbatim copy of the physical printed receipt in HTML

This reminds me of a small task I was given to log order execution price for a Retail Forex trading app. We were getting support calls for disputes on what the price was at the time the order was placed (send to the server).

Instead of doing the obvious thing (timestamp, buy/sell, currency-pair, price) I tried to mimic the order execution confirmation screen as closely as I could in ASCII. It was tricky though as this was a Java AWT app then updated to use many kinds JPanel subclasses and everything was custom painted. We did still have access to the info (if exposed). The funnest part was approximating line/column positions from pixel layouts--the reverse of going from sketch to app. It worked pretty well. When someone called, we asked them to open the log using a menu item and scroll back. When they got to the snapshot, they quickly stopped complaining.

Not special, just compliance. TAX laws require receipts as text, stored in write-once memory for audits. You can read, reprint, whatever...

I remember when Easter eggs like this were all over the web before frontend frameworks took over. Nice to see the tradition continues.

In other news Berkeley Graphics changed its name a year ago? hmph