1. The (german) Heise Newsticker does just this. When I look at the page source of a news message I find a tag which isn't part of HTML (<HEISETEXT>) and the content of such a tag (which will probably be ignored completely by browsers) should be available with the HTML::Parser (or HTML::TokeParser?) module(s).
2. I don't think that you will be able to introduce perl that way. First of all, you could do the same taks in other languages, too. Secondly probably no one will complain about pages not printing nicely. At least unless you're providing a content which usually gets printed.

Regards...	Stefan
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