[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: horde/themes print.css

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Plus, using a generated print view shows the user how this page will look
>> like being printed out. How many end users know of (browser builtin) print
>> previews or use them before printing? In the end they would get something
>> printed out that looks different from what they saw on the screen when they
>> hit "Print". Confusion.
>
> Then we could keep the new window and explicitly apply the print 
> stylesheet to
> it, so they see on the screen what prints out.

And how is this different from what we do now?

>> While using different media types for CSS has its merits, especially for
>> static pages, I don't think it can outperform server generated print views,
>> especially if the pages are server generated anyway.
>
> The point is that this is a much, much simpler way to make things print out
> well, without mucking with all of our code.

But this could as well be achieved with the print theme that we currently
have. I fail to see the necessity to use media for that.

Jan.

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