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

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Jan 12 09:42:30 PST 2005


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> 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?

It's not, but part of my point is that you wouldn't need the new window.

>> 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.

Well, one reason is that themes could control how they printed. As we 
move more
layout to CSS that becomes a bigger deal.

Anyone else have opinions on this?

-chuck

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