[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki menu

Sat Oct 30 02:22:11 UTC 2004

>That said, the automagic printable version does seem to be incredibly
>non-intuitive to people. Unfortunately, I can't think of a convenient
>way of saying "contrary to what you might think, this page will look
>OK printed" other than implying the exact opposite (with a "printable
>version" link or somesuch). I believe last time this was mentioned,
>there were suggestions of having a javascript "Print" or "Print
>preview" link somewhere, which might give the right impression, but no
>decent implementation was found (especially the latter seems to have
>no easy solution). Anybody fancy trying to take this idea any further?
>
I like to put a 'Printable Version' link on pages even if they actually 
will print exactly as the normal pages. Usually I use the same URL for 
the current page and just add ?print to the end. The only difference 
usually is that I use a little Javascript to pop up a print dialog box 
automaticlly for the print version. Sometimes I do make minor template 
changes for the printable versions too. If I think I want to change 
things that might be harder to do with just CSS.

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Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
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