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

[David Gerard]

Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050613 09:06]:

> My favoured solution is similar to this but doesn't involve telling the
> user that their intuition is wrong, it just does the intuitive thing.
> The solution is to use a print icon, which when clicked, uses JavaScript
> to request that the page be printed. In most browsers this will
> immediately pop up a print dialog.


That's quite good, and may even appease those who think a top-50 website
should indulge in breaking user interface expectations for the sake of
geeky cleverness.


- d.