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Eric Wagoner 2001-11-16T01:22:00 false Advanced HTML

My coworkers refer to this little gem as "The World's Most Advanced Web Page". It's meant to be printed, landscape on legal-sized paper with minimum margins. < proudNerd > It doesn't look all that complicated, really, but it took me a week or so to get it to work. It gets created on the fly by our software package, drawing in data from a number of sources. It uses HTML, CSS, Python, and a computer language we made up ourselves to create what you see. The problem is that the language underneath web pages wasn't designed with printing in mind, so it is very hard to manage margins and page breaks and exact layout on the paper. We really shouldn't be using it at all, but we needed to take advantage of the protability, size, and the fact that every computer had a pre-installed viewer. In the next few months, we'll be moving to PDF files created on the fly. PDFs are meant to be printed, so I'll have exact control of the layout, but I'll need to create the pages at the programming language level -- no WYSIWYG editors or anything like that. It will be just like when I programmed PostScript Diplomacy maps by hand. < /proudNerd >