https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56875

--- Comment #3 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I still use it. E.g., at Mises Wiki we have a customized skin that prints a
> bunch of junk at the top if you try to print without first clicking to get
> the
> printable version. Compare what happens if you do a print preview from:
> 
> * http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Main_Page
> * http://wiki.mises.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&printable=yes
> 
> Here is the Vector.php we use: http://pastebin.com/QKGARhTU Notice these
> lines:
> 
> if ( isset ( $_REQUEST[ 'printable' ] ) ) {
>       require_once ( "Vector.printable.php" );
> } else { ...
> 
> In other words, if the user has selected the printable version, then
> Vector.printable.php, which is just the regular Vector.php that comes with
> MediaWiki and doesn't have all that MisesWiki-specific stuff that would cause
> all that junk to print at the top, is used instead of the rest of the code in
> Vector.php. If there's a more elegant solution to this issue, please let me
> know. Thanks.

That's not a very good argument for keeping printable in. You should be fixing
your printable stylesheets properly so that they kill the things you don't want
to be printed.

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