Re: Printer friendly pages

>> 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'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.

Sounds like a good approach. I've seen your commits, but I haven't tested
it yet. Nice work, Thijs!

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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