From fc679fa06c516c0f9788716985c298d802d3e10c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:29:04 +0000 Subject: response/comments --- doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn b/doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn index 905bd452c..6b1b66178 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn @@ -5,4 +5,23 @@ to have it in my ikiwiki :) Probably it's better to generate a page on the fly as a CGI (just the same like for RecentChanges page) when a user really needs it, instead to build static printable version -for all ikiwiki pages. --Pawel \ No newline at end of file +for all ikiwiki pages. --Pawel + +> I've always considered print links to be a sign of a badly designed web +> site that looks ugly in a printer because it's ugly anywhere, so I may +> take some convinving. :-) Ikiwiki pages seem like they'd print out ok +> as-is to me. +> +> (I also often click on print links, just to get a web page that I can +> read, especially often hoping that it will have the whole article on it, +> instead of the 99 tiny pagelets nasty websites like to split things into. +> Have I ever mentioned how much I *hate* the web?) +> +> One option, if your stylesheet contained something that was unpalatable +> in printing, would be to define an alternate stylesheet optimised for +> printing, and somehow switch the browser to use that stylesheet when +> printing a page (it can be switched from a menu in the UI of some +> browsers, but I'm not sure what a good way would be to switch the +> stylesheet on the fly without re-rendering the page..) +> +> --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3