ikiwiki/doc/todo/Print_link.mdwn

I think that Print link to open popup window with printable
HTML version of page is very useful thing, so I would like
to have it in my ikiwiki :)

Probably it's better to generate a page on the fly as a CGI
(just the same like for RecentChanges page) when a user
really needs it, instead to build static printable version
for all ikiwiki pages. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]

> I've always considered print links to be a sign of a badly designed web
> site that looks ugly in a printer because it's ugly anywhere, so I may
> take some convinving. :-) Ikiwiki pages seem like they'd print out ok
> as-is to me.

>> ikiwiki home pages are plain and clean, but please note that some
>> ikiwiki users can have their wiki with banners and navbars and a lot
>> of graphics.

> (I also often click on print links, just to get a web page that I can
> read, especially often hoping that it will have the whole article on it,
> instead of the 99 tiny pagelets nasty websites like to split things into.
> Have I ever mentioned how much I *hate* the web?)

>> I always print all interested articles for me, because I hate reading
>> them from a display monitor. It's too painful for my eyes. And I want
>> to print only article *body* without all wrappers, because I don't
>> need them.

> One option, if your stylesheet contained something that was unpalatable
> in printing, would be to define an alternate stylesheet optimised for
> printing, and somehow switch the browser to use that stylesheet when
> printing a page (it can be switched from a menu in the UI of some
> browsers, but I'm not sure what a good way would be to switch the
> stylesheet on the fly without re-rendering the page..)
>
> --[[Joey]]

>> Maybe you could add `print.css` file for printable version? We just have
>> `local.css` file for a local styling. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]

>>> Sure, very doable, but the UI to switch to it when printing, I don't
>>> know..

>>>> Is the IU to switch is really necessary? Why don't use only
>>>> `style.css` and `print.css` files in header of printable version
>>>> of page? The second file can be equivalent of `local.css` file
>>>> and it can overwrite default CSS styles.

>>> BTW, I'm sure that the Print link as originally requested could be
>>> written as a plugin fairly simply. --[[Joey]]

>>>> I'm not a Perl expert, but I can take a look at code of other
>>>> ikiwiki plugins.

>>>> BTW, I also was thinkig about plugin to CVS support,
>>>> but unfortunately I don't have too much free time. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]

>> You don't need a stylesheet-switching UI or a printer-friendly
>> version; just link to a stylesheet with `media="print"`. --[[JoshTriplett]]

>>> Example? --[[Joey]]

>>>> I used `meta` to add a `media="print"` stylesheet to the [[sandbox]].  In print or
>>>> print preview (on browsers supporting data URIs), you should no longer
>>>> see the search form. --[[JoshTriplett]]

>>>>> (And I broke it, since it was a security hole ;-). So it looks like
>>>>> media=print can be 
>>>>> [used inside a style sheet](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html),
>>>>> so the thing to do would be to edit style.css to automatically disable parts 
>>>>> not wanted when printing. That would rock. --[[Joey]]

Yay! I've modified the stylesheet and this is [[done]]. --[[Joey]]