Re: Discourse

[David Wright]

On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 15:14:08 (-0800), Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2023-02-23 3:08 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 23:50:43 (+0100), Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > > Le jeudi 23 février 2023 à 22:14 +0000, Wols Lists a écrit :
> > 
> > > > Many of the websites I interact with on a regular basis (shopping, of
> > > > course) have completely broken print interfaces, so bad that one page of
> > > > interesting web text will give 20 pages of print with all of the
> > > > interesting text missing ...
> > > 
> > > I just tried Ctrl-P on 
> > > https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-702-marking-deprecations-using-the-type-system/23036
> > > (in Firefox). It gave me a perfectly legible and relatively
> > > nicely formatted PDF.
> > 
> > I just tried ^P on the same link in FF, and I got a bar that said:
> > 
> >   "Firefox prevented this site from opening a pop-up window.
> > [Preferences]  ×"
> > 
> > What does it contain/is it for?
> 
> That's an overly aggressive pop-up blocker.

For any given site, it's Yes or No. FF says No aggressively?¹ :)

> Opening new pages for
> printing is a pretty normal use case.
> 
> But you should be able to manually add "/print" to the end of the URL
> and navigate to the page without the pop-up block.

Thanks. That gave me precisely what I normally get by typing ^P.
With all the hundreds of pages that I've printed from FF (I hasten
to add that I only print to PDFs from applications), this is the
first site to trigger a "pop-up" on pressing ^P.

Assuming that this modal print dialog box is what the "pop-up"
contains, I can't understand why this site, unlike any other,
considers it a pop-up. I don't suppose it's worth signing up
just to ask.

¹ OTOH my ad-etc-blocking is aggressive, ~13,500 addresses.

Cheers,
David.