Comments on: Printing Smartly http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/ Tidbits from Brian King's life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Bolton http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-53155 David Bolton Sat, 26 May 2007 20:04:39 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-53155 How about using a print.css file (with media="print") for some aspects such as blocking elements or stretching skinny text columns to fill the page width. This would also show up in the Print Preview. How about using a print.css file (with media=”print”) for some aspects such as blocking elements or stretching skinny text columns to fill the page width. This would also show up in the Print Preview.

]]> By: David Bolton http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-53154 David Bolton Sat, 26 May 2007 20:01:09 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-53154 How about using a print.css file for some aspects such as blocking elements or widening skinny columns of text. This would show up in the print preview. How about using a print.css file for some aspects such as blocking elements or widening skinny columns of text. This would show up in the print preview.

]]> By: Jon Pritchard http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-53038 Jon Pritchard Fri, 25 May 2007 21:17:10 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-53038 This sounds like a truly innovative extension. Will happily watch it's progress. Who knows, it'd be good to see these kind of things rolled into the mainline Firefox. Good luck. This sounds like a truly innovative extension. Will happily watch it’s progress. Who knows, it’d be good to see these kind of things rolled into the mainline Firefox.

Good luck.

]]> By: rfl http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-52932 rfl Thu, 24 May 2007 16:59:36 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-52932 I think the post of ROC you are referring to is "Units Patch Landed" : As I took a look myself in print code some month ago, I must say you are really brave... Nothing has really changed for years, bugs listed in the comments on http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/12/printing_bugs_in_firefox_1.html still exist today... About your extension, I didn't test it yet (I don't have an account on AMO), so I don't know how you're dealing with it, but would something like adblock "filter tabs over div" for easy and persistent deletion be possible ? Also, searching for a link to a printable version of the page would be nice. I think the post of ROC you are referring to is “Units Patch Landed” :

As I took a look myself in print code some month ago, I must say you are really brave…
Nothing has really changed for years, bugs listed in the comments on http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/12/printing_bugs_in_firefox_1.html still exist today…

About your extension, I didn’t test it yet (I don’t have an account on AMO), so I don’t know how you’re dealing with it, but would something like adblock “filter tabs over div” for easy and persistent deletion be possible ?
Also, searching for a link to a printable version of the page would be nice.

]]> By: Brian http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-52930 Brian Thu, 24 May 2007 16:36:38 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-52930 Excellent idea. However, could the interaction with print preview be improved? At the moment, SmartPrint kicks in after you've previewed the doc, so you don't get to see the effect it will have - people may actually waste paper printing documents again because of this. It might even be nice to have the SmartPrint on/off as a toggle on the print preview window, though I've no idea if thats possible. Excellent idea. However, could the interaction with print preview be improved? At the moment, SmartPrint kicks in after you’ve previewed the doc, so you don’t get to see the effect it will have – people may actually waste paper printing documents again because of this. It might even be nice to have the SmartPrint on/off as a toggle on the print preview window, though I’ve no idea if thats possible.

]]> By: Brian P. http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-52929 Brian P. Thu, 24 May 2007 16:25:52 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-52929 Two printing items are listed here: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document Neither of which are assigned to anyone yet. - Simplify the print preview dialog - Printed pages should break without breaking lines Three print items have already been push out of Firefox 3: http://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxNext/ProductRequirements Two printing items are listed here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document
Neither of which are assigned to anyone yet.

- Simplify the print preview dialog
- Printed pages should break without breaking lines

Three print items have already been push out of Firefox 3:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxNext/ProductRequirements

]]> By: sdf http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-52928 sdf Thu, 24 May 2007 16:11:22 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-52928 i'd lighten up the "revolutionize" part of the webpage - with that aim the user can only be disappointed. i’d lighten up the “revolutionize” part of the webpage – with that aim the user can only be disappointed.

]]> By: Bo http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2007/05/printing-smartly/comment-page-1/#comment-52927 Bo Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:11 +0000 http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=242#comment-52927 Great job, I've wanted something like this since forever! Great job, I’ve wanted something like this since forever!

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