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Printable version

I'm trying to figure out where the printable version link is actually useful. If the browser does not support CSS, then the printable version is of no use, as it depends on stylesheets. Even with CSS, the printable version does not apply any @media print rules, nor does it apply browser formatting such as headers, footers and page numbers, making its use as a print preview very limited.

Using the Firefox Accessibility Extension, I can disable CSS. This makes it very obvious that CSS is used to format the printable version page and without CSS, the printable version is useless.

--Gadget850 (talk) 13:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure, but i believe there was a time that several major browsers did not support "<link media=print>" (did not use print style sheets when printing), but did support enough CSS to print the printable version when commanded to. IE5 perhaps ? --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

and to quote IRC.

15:38 < werdna> not really, but people like it being there
15:38 < flyingparchment> when it was removed, people kept mailing OTRS asking how to print pages

Ah! Now that I know what to look for, this handy chart shows that IE5, IE6 and others do not support <link media= "print">. --Gadget850 (talk) 14:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But these browsers also do not support @media print.[1] So- it looks like the stylesheets would apply, but not the @media print rules. I probably have IE5 or 6 on my NT box (if it fires up). --Gadget850 (talk) 14:14, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. As far as I know, we only VERY sparsely uses @media print rules. Those are more useful for user's CSS stylesheets. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:43, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Info not printed?

Can anyone tell me why the print version shows succession boxes but not navigation boxes? Was there a consensus reached on this at some point? 205.172.16.60 (talk) 23:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]