[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki menu

Fri Oct 29 15:37:30 UTC 2004

I feel like this conversation is futile and that it is only being
perpetuated for the point of an argument.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:01:58 -0600, Muke Tever <muke at frath.net> wrote:
> Yeah, but when one doesn't know or expect that (and is, perhaps, in a
> situation where they don't care to spare paper in testing, such as
> a public computer lab with pay printouts) they won't *try* to print from
> the mediawiki site.  They'll spend extra time copying articles to notepad
> or a wordprocessor to print from there, or, if they've been around longer,
> will do what I did before I knew the site was printable and switch back
> to classic skin so they can have printable links back.

The fact is that other than a few specific instantces (where the
person probably has a vague idea what he/she is doing anyway), when a
page is printed only the article content is needed.

> [Yes, there is "print preview".  But that also is unexpected behavior.]

This is browser dependent no wiki has control over this. A good
browser, however, should render using the print.css style sheet.

-- Jamie
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