Weblog entry #71 for Steve
With more work from K2 we now have a CSS print-style for this site.
What does this mean?
It means if you have an article you'd like to print you have two choices:
- Article Only
Use the "Print Version" link at the foot of every article to generate a simple page with just the article text.
This is all that was previously available and is ideal for printing out short, or simple, articles which are complete in their own right.
- CSS Article Printing
Using your web browser print facilities directly to print an article allows you to have a copy which contains the article text and the comments - but without the sidebars, or the header to waste paper / the page.
This is ideal for those articles which have important corrections, or updates, left in the comments.
Hopefully this will make a few people happy. (It should work for weblogs + polls too, although that isn't the primary use-case.)
In other news the RSS feed of comments should be here shortly, (Yes I mean it this time) and the user-tagging will be slightly delayed. (Mostly because I'm having problems with the Ajax implementation I want to use.)
Continuing the work suggested by the usability testing I've moved the "contribute article + poll" links to the side of the page, away from the header. Hopefully that will make them more "findable".
(I have decided that polls will remain, even though few people submit them and each one seems to be full of comments "why didn't you add X?".)
Comments on this Entry
The power of CSS: we didn't have to change anything in the source in order to get the printouts. That means we are using the same page for printing that you are viewing.
The print style sheet is a great enhancement from the earlier "Print" links below the articles. Main features of the new print media style sheet are: comments are included and indented too, links underlined and bold, styled content in prints, and you can get a actual idea of how the prints will be using "Print Preview" feature of your browser (CSS2 complaint browsers give best idead). The more curious can see the printout by printing to a ps file.
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