Re: Printer friendly pages

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 23:53, Fredrik Jervfors wrote:
>> 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!
>
> The pure-css print function is finished here and it was quite easy. Of
> course it has a *but*, that's why I didn't commit it. It works, but: only
> for JavaScript-enabled browsers.
>
> Basically what I've done is replaced the "View Printable Version" with a
> "Print" link that pops up your browser print window. This is nothing more
> than the two lines of JS that currently power the Print button in the
> printer friendly popup. It works because that JS puts the focus on the
> right frame and then calls the print command on it.
>
> I'm enthusiastic about it because it replaces a significant amount of code
> and files with just a handful lines of new stuff. So only open question to
> me is what to do when there's no JavaScript.
>
> Currently I'm thinking along this line. When no Javascript, then:
>
> - The Print link is a link to same read_body with a print=1 parameter
> attached and a target="_blank".
> - Read_body opens in a new window and near the top is a box that says: Use
> File->Print in your browser to print this message. of course that box is
> also hidden with css from the actual print.
>
> That seems to me the best way to support both JS and non_JS browsers
> without having to keep a large infrastructure just for the (increasingly
> more rare) non-JS browsers.
>
> Comments welcome. I'll probably continue with implementing this sometime
> soon.

I like it

> I've looked into a way to use the print CSS to just hide or get rid of the
> left frame when print is invoked on webmail.php, but couldn't get it done.
> If someone gets that working, then that would of course also be great.

Can't the default style sheet have a display:none for media:<anything
but print>??

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