I got an HTML with the <body onload="window.print()">
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The question I'm trying to ask is:
Google Docs is now skirting around this issue by generating a PDF version of your document.
If you are using Chrome, it will automatically open the PDF in a new tab and pop up the print dialog. Other browsers will prompt you to download the resultant file (which is not necessarily obvious behavior).
While I don't find this to be an elegant solution, one should be able to recreate this fairly easily using most existing web technologies.