On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:05:27 -0400, Jamie Bliss
<astronouth7303(a)gmail.com> wrote:
index.php?title=foo&action=print ? (plus rewrite
rules) It would seem
like a relatively easy hack.
This used to exist, but when the default skin was changed to one using
XHTML + CSS, it was moved to CSS instead as representing a "nicer" way
of doing it. So although we *could* reimplement such a link, it would
a) not actually do anything, and b) imply, wrongly, that printing
without clicking it would lead to an ugly printout (so that people
will never realise there's an easier way to achieve an identical
result).
I repeat my suggestion that if we can find a "good enough" way of
popping up a print preview (or, as a last resort, a "Print..." dialog)
from a JavaScript link, we could have a "Print this page" button that
did so without doing any additional loading. That may be a big "if",
though, I admit.
Otherwise, we need to find a way of switching the active display
stylesheet with the minimum of server load - perhaps playing with
*that* in JS? (What am I saying? I normally hate JS! But then, we're
talking CSS anyway, so it's not like it's a client-side/server-side
issue).
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]