Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

(not) printing flash

Brocatus asks:

How can I not have realized that flash in a webpage is not printed when you print the page; it just leaves a big empty spot. Incredible. No info to be found on how to change this as well. I’m actually appalled. So, what to do… create a print specific version of the page, regardless of the wonders of modern css? Anybody any idea?

First of all, you keep as little as possible in flash, but you knew that. Second, you keep the stuff in flash in html, too, and hide it/overlay the flash. This is what sIFR does, with a dash of javascript, and the techniques are likely easily adaptable to other forms of content (other than plain text).