[Mediawiki-l] How to generate "printer friendly" pages?

[Paul Johnson]

On Sunday June 12 2005 12:27 pm, David Gerard wrote:
> Rowan Collins (rowan.collins at gmail.com) [050613 03:17]:
> > Press "print" in your browser. No, really - try a "Print preview"
> > - there's special CSS which should work on most browsers. See
> > also http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577
>
> It's increasingly obvious Monobook needs an explicit "Printable
> version" link. Casual browsers are used to these links, and they
> *expect* them.

But they shouldn't, and the vast majority of sites in existence get it 
right.  Why should we make a deliberate decision to get it wrong?  
They should change, we're not the ones who suck.  8:o)

> The automagic printing CSS trick is clever but 
> sufficiently nonobvious to put people off even trying to print.

For "people" == sponges and lower forms of mammilian life with IQ < 
70?

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Paul Johnson
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