On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:53:26 -0700, Paul Johnson <baloo(a)ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
But that's
not WYSIWYG: User sees a page with a menu and the printer
outputs a page without a menu.
Why is that a problem? It degrades nicely to a printable version
without all the added fuss of having to go to another page to get a
printable version.
Yeah, but when one doesn't know or expect that (and is, perhaps, in a
situation where they don't care to spare paper in testing, such as
a public computer lab with pay printouts) they won't *try* to print from
the mediawiki site. They'll spend extra time copying articles to notepad
or a wordprocessor to print from there, or, if they've been around longer,
will do what I did before I knew the site was printable and switch back
to classic skin so they can have printable links back.
[Yes, there is "print preview". But that also is unexpected behavior.]
*Muke!
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