Re: Barracuda: your web site

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Organization Springfield Nuclear Plant
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Robert,

All the docs for Barracuda are going to be modified for the move to
the new BarracudaMVC.org server (not up quite yet, but soon).  I think Christian
is driving the re-work, so if you have ideas for how to make sure that
the pages are printer-friendly, send them to the list.

One obvious way is to provide an stylesheet with a media type of
"print".  That way, the page can be whatever you want it to look like
on the web and also look exactly how you want it for printing as well
without either style constraining the other.

To see this implemented, check out:
http://www.alistapart.com/

Try doing a print-preview of that page.  Notice how the right
navigation that was on the page isn't there in the print-preview?
That is because they have a printer-specific stylesheet defined:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/print.css" />


Also, their lead story for this week is a nice guideline for what
should happen with the Barracuda docs rework:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flexiblelayouts/

I have plenty of resources on these ideas.  If questions come up about
styles, don't hesitate to query me.  I want to make sure the doc
rework doesn't become a hob-job of nested tables and spacer images like
it is currently.

Jake

Friday, December 13, 2002, 10:59:30 AM, you wrote:

RB> Web pages such as
RB> http://barracuda.enhydra.org/cvs_source/Barracuda/docs/events/sample_present
RB> ation_flows.html don't print very well on my printer because they are too
RB> wide.  The margin and the borders impose a fixed width.  Is there a way that
RB> you could redo these so that they are variable width or provide a
RB> print-friendly view?
 
RB> Robert Blumen



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 Jacob                            mailto:[email protected]

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