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
>
> I don't know why such the hatred of frames.  :-)  They are more
> efficient and they work fine.  Plenty of desktop apps also use frames.

I don't hate frames - I'm just saying that they're an add-on to the
original idea about the page (and beauty in simplicity?).

>> (hopefully not "if") we have a framless version we could dump the
>> pop-ups
>
> 1.5.2 allows this.  I have fiddled with some code that unframes it
> whilst working on mobile phone stuff.  No folder list unless you access it
> via a link, but some other advanced template set should be able to include
> that, too, although some core changes may or may not be necessary.

Sweet! For some reason I wasn't aware of this.

>> 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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