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Google Chrome is a great browser, but it still has a few shortcomings -- one of which is the lack of a print preview screen. The plumbing for such a feature has existed in Chrome for a while now, and Print Preview even appears as an option in about:flags.
Right now, enabling Preview has no effect on functionality. Flipping the switch does, however, provide a partial glimpse of how the feature is shaping up. Entering chrome://print in your Omnibar will load the page you see above, minus the TSN page, of course. I composited that in to provide some idea how the preview might actually appear with content -- right now, chrome://print just displays the word main in all caps.
Once again, Google is eschewing additional application windows in favor of an in-tab display. As with the bookmark manager and the tabbed options feature in about:flags, building print preview into a tab should simplify deployment of the feature across different OSes.
It seems likely that chrome://print will also feature ties to Cloud Print -- so that you can easily fire off your document to any printer you've connected to the service.
On an unrelated note, I wonder if TSN is looking for an editor. Yowsa.
Right now, enabling Preview has no effect on functionality. Flipping the switch does, however, provide a partial glimpse of how the feature is shaping up. Entering chrome://print in your Omnibar will load the page you see above, minus the TSN page, of course. I composited that in to provide some idea how the preview might actually appear with content -- right now, chrome://print just displays the word main in all caps.
Once again, Google is eschewing additional application windows in favor of an in-tab display. As with the bookmark manager and the tabbed options feature in about:flags, building print preview into a tab should simplify deployment of the feature across different OSes.
It seems likely that chrome://print will also feature ties to Cloud Print -- so that you can easily fire off your document to any printer you've connected to the service.
On an unrelated note, I wonder if TSN is looking for an editor. Yowsa.
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Subscribe to commentsJoshOct 19th 2010 12:04PM
They realize they don't need an editor for Wings articles. The Wings are so good that any typos are made irrelevant.
Lee MathewsOct 19th 2010 12:06PM
Nicely done, Josh. +1
JonnyOct 19th 2010 12:00PM
"On an unrelated note, I wonder if TSN is looking for an editor. Yowsa."
I would hope so, other then hockey coverage there is almost no other info on their site. ;-)
Personally I think that since they are franchising ESPN they should just combine internet content. TSN for hockey, ESPN for everything else.
As for chrome - berry berry interesting.
JoshOct 19th 2010 4:39PM
TSN makes Fox News look fair when it comes to favoritism. We replace the little hockey content on ESPN with TSN articles and we'd see 9 out of 10 articles being about the 1/5 of the league that is Canadian.