Printer-friendly AskMe?

May 21, 2005 8:46 AM

printer-friendly links for ask metafilter pages? what do you reckon?
posted by mcsweetie to Feature Requests at 8:46 AM (14 comments total)

What particular aspects of the page would you change for that?
posted by jacquilynne at 8:53 AM on May 21, 2005

Anyone want to write a print CSS sheet for it? Maybe do a display:none on everything but the text content?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:10 AM on May 21, 2005

I reckon it's an excellent idea.
posted by shmegegge at 12:33 PM on May 21, 2005

I think having a print CSS sheet is an excellent idea.
posted by grouse at 2:54 PM on May 21, 2005

Yes, I agree.
posted by ori at 5:48 PM on May 21, 2005

Anyone want to write a print CSS sheet for it? Maybe do a display:none on everything but the text content?

ooh, yes. do this and then write an greasemonkey script to include it, so I can read metafilter from work without people wondering what i'm looking at.

and someone should write me a bosskey that shows spreadsheets of american porn consumption or something.
posted by fishfucker at 8:40 PM on May 21, 2005

not to toot my own horn here, but I think I've created the least controversial metatalk thread of all time. printer-friendly links for ask metafilter pages is something that both liberals and conservatives can get behind.
posted by mcsweetie at 11:06 PM on May 21, 2005

Um, what's printer-unfriendly about it now? It seems to print just fine. Isn't the chief point of a so-called "printer friendly" view to dispense with the needless pagination and advertising, neither of which apply?
posted by majick at 11:20 PM on May 21, 2005

I'm with majick. What's lacking in the friendship department?
posted by AlexReynolds at 11:45 PM on May 21, 2005

Demo of the AskMetaFilter home page with a print style sheet.
posted by kirkaracha at 12:43 AM on May 22, 2005

ooh, yes. do this and then write an greasemonkey script to include it, so I can read metafilter from work without people wondering what i'm looking at.

Why don't you do that yourself? Isn't that the whole point of Greasemonkey?
posted by grouse at 12:53 AM on May 22, 2005

That's badass Kirk. Here's what Kirk's print version looks like (screenshot of print preview in firefox)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:08 AM on May 22, 2005

GREAT IDEA
posted by Livewire Confusion at 7:04 AM on May 22, 2005

Weird. In firefox (build from last week), closing matt's link when it's tabbed crashes firefox (also use windows XP).
posted by jmd82 at 12:22 PM on May 23, 2005