On Sunday June 12 2005 12:27 pm, David Gerard wrote:
Rowan Collins (rowan.collins(a)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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