Re: How to pluck a "Printer-friendly" page (CSS)

[Daniel Serodio]

Tim Paris wrote:
> Go ahead and pluck the page. It is HTML. The CSS is just formatting which is
> not picked up by plucker anyway. In this case, the page is plucked exactly
> the same as "screen-friendly" and "printer-friendly" since there are no HTML
> differences between either.
>
> Now, if there are HTML differences, this is a different story. A number of
> websites change the HTML for the "printer-friendly" version. I have designed
> my websites with the printing CSS and screen CSS already built-in so people
> don't get different HTML and the printing comes out quickly and
> pre-formatted for the printer. (See http://alpha.ncf.ca for example.)
>   
I'm not sure what you call "HTML differences". AFAIK, the most common
use of "printer-friendly" CSS is to hide navigation <div>s. If I plucked
the page as-is, these navigation <div>s would be included.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Serodio
> Sent: October 16, 2006 5:20 PM
> To: Plucker List
> Subject: How to pluck a "Printer-friendly" page (CSS)
>
> More and more sites (InfoQ, for example) are using CSS to produce a
> "printer-friendly" version, is it possible to pluck this CSS-enhanced page?
> See http://www.infoq.com/articles/SEDA-Mule for example.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel Serodio
>   
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