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- gatekillr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19There's no rule that the owner of the content can't submit their own articles.
- aNoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It really is sad how few people even know about print stylesheets much less use them. The beauty of it is they usually takes about 5-10 minutes to make.
If you're planning on writing a print stylesheet for you site you may want to look into making a handheld stylesheet too (although that's not quite as simple thanks to IE mobile). And if you're really committed you can even make a stylesheet for screen readers. - gatekillr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Very good article... Another one to note is: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printtopreview/
- Sheco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm waiting for css page breaks, they'll be available in CSS3, right?
- ForrestFrazier, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What's really sad is the author of this article doesn't take his own advise! If you are going to write a piece about the value of print style sheets perhaps you should use one.
- madmac66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that was all news to me. very useful tip. thanks to 'the community' once again
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We are the users of Digg. We will make our own decisions about what is crap and what isn't. I personally don't need you or anybody else making that decision for me.
So to answer your question: yes, everybody (except you) is happy with that arrangement. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I discovered this whole print stylesheet thing a couple years ago and have been using them quite a bit. I spread the word to other web developers and designers that I know and I have yet to meet one who had even the slightest inkling about it. Most of them give me this look like I'm insane until I demonstrate it for them, and then it becomes a look of surprise. I'm not sure why it's such a rare bit of knowledge but it shouldn't be.
To this day, I still sort of scoff at the "printer friendly" link that is so prominently displayed on most web sites. That's always been a bit of a kludge anyway. - TPHigginbotham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't agree with the use of !important either but it is supported in IE6 and 7 (IE5.5 and under do not provide support). It's much better to set an attribute's importance through correct specificity. A good article explaining CSS precedence can be found at http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html
- jonathansnook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you have some limited control over page breaks as it is. Unfortunately, it's pretty much limited to forcing page breaks.
- kevinisnthere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's why you can Digg stuff if you like it. Personally, I find this useful and I don't really care about the source.
- halfnormalform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@gatekillr:
Dugg for alistapart mention. I love that site. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No idea why you're being dugg down, but you're right about it being relatively easy. In fact, if someone wants to create a very simple way to implement a print stylesheet without spending a lot of time on it, they can literally create a "no-print" class and just surround the non-printer elements with divs of that class. That's sort of a battering ram approach to it, but if you needed to do it quickly, that would work.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7[delete]comment[/delete]
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -0/+1I like that website.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Creating print css is relatively easy. Its a matter of showing only the content area, everything else, display: none. If you have a typography stylesheet, set its media type to 'all' and the print.css will include that with its formatting.
I don't agree with the use of !important either, because I believe I read that its no longer supported/affected with IE6-7. - ziruzhu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice tip. Thanks.
- joebloom, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Nice article.
- javster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Following latest designs ( http://feedraider.com/u/css ) it's clear print style sheets aren't all that common.
- ttfadia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yay Buffalo and UB!
- halfnormalform, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For things that need to be printed on a regular basis, I like creating PDFs on the fly using the freeware FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/) class for PHP. It's pretty easy to set things up to paginate, no matter the length. (But you do need to know PHP and have a web host that supports it.)
And I strongly agree with the author that it's confusing to have a printed page look drastically different from the browser's rendering. (Again, that's why PDFs are great...you see exactly what prints). - broeks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0XSLT FTW!
- kevincannon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yup. It's particularly good to see someone point out users actually expect to print out what they saw on screen, and to radically depart from that is probably not a good idea.
- NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1BUFFALO IN THE HIZZY!!!
*rapture* - tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0"There's no rule that the owner of the content can't submit their own articles."
So everyone is happy whenever someone posts their blogs crap? - tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -26/+2Id feel happier if he didnt submit stuff from his own website.
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