Re: Printer friendly pages (was: SF.net SVN: squirrelmail: [13121] trunk/squirrelmail)

>> Add preliminary printerfriendly-through-css feature. This adds a new
>> print.css stylesheet that is used when using the browser's print (or
>> print preview) function. A problem is that due to the frames, it won't
>> work if selecting File -> Print because this will print webmail.php
>> instead of read_body. To see it in action, open read_body on its own and
>> use File -> Print Preview.
>
> I didn't try it, but nice work.

I too didn't try it, but I like the idea.

>> It would be nice if this could replace the printer_friendly function
>> over time, because it's purely css based and thus doesn't require extra
>> code. For that we need to finetune the sheet and most importantly,
>> conquer the frames-problem in some smart way.
>
> Many many websites use a popup window for print-ready pages.

With the possibilities in CSS they shouldn't have to any more, but as
Thijs points out that only works if the original idea behind the WWW is
respected: that information is displayed as pages and not in frames. When
(hopefully not "if") we have a framless version we could dump the pop-ups
altogether (and have a plugin with pop-ups for those who really wants
them).

What we could do already is to remove the printer friendly files from
"/src/" and use "/src/read_body.php" with another CSS to provide the clean
look needed for printing. Unfortunately I don't have time to do this
myself. Volunteers, please step up!

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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