Discussion on Printer Friendly Redirect | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Mon, 14 May 2007 03:05:56 -0500

znerp — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:05:56 -0500

dingar, I am aware of problems such as this, but this script isn't the most sophisticated script in the world. My aim has been to ensure that it will redirect on most pages that have a print friendly version, not to ensure that it won't on pages selling printers etc. Without spending a very long time trying to find a way around this issue, it would be impossible to fix this particular problem. I guess this is just the problem with trying to write a script for every page on the internet.

I guess all I can suggest is to hit the printer again if you end up on a page that you don't expect to be on, and manually look for a printer friendly link.

Archived Comments, replied by dingar @ Sun, 13 May 2007 23:10:32 -0500

dingar — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:10:32 -0500

Znerp, thank you for your reply. I love this script.
Look PCWorld please, it will jump to a page talk about priter. Such as
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130869-page,1...

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sun, 13 May 2007 07:54:48 -0500

znerp — Sun, 13 May 2007 07:54:48 -0500

UPDATE: now works for newscientist.com

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Thu, 10 May 2007 05:30:54 -0500

znerp — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:30:54 -0500

dingar, on the whole I've tried to avoid using javascript links, and very few sites seem to use them. On the whole when clicking them, I've found that it attempts to actually send the page to a printer and it would be annoying to have that pop up every time. I know it would be possible to block this from happening, but I'm happy to have the site load for most of the major news sites as it does.

I looked at the site that you linked, and I've found the link you're referring to, but not being familiar with Chinese and due to the reasons listed above, I don't think I'll add it to the script. Feel free though to add as many extra lines as you like to your version though, half the fun of some scripts is customising them for your own use. Glad you like the script though!

Archived Comments, replied by dingar @ Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:01 -0500

dingar — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:01 -0500

Look this page
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-03-07/1704124555...
and I add
allLinks[i].href.match("javascript:LoadPrintJs()") ||

Archived Comments, replied by parallel lines @ Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:48:44 -0500

parallel lines — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:48:44 -0500

i love this script! but i cant get it to go back to the page i came from, it keeps taking me back to the print friendly page. what gives?

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:45:22 -0500

znerp — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:45:22 -0500

UPDATE: now works for boston.com

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:51:16 -0500

znerp — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:51:16 -0500

UPDATE: now works for citypaper.net

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:28:11 -0500

znerp — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:28:11 -0500

Thanks for the feedback Robert Litzke. I've grown the printer icon, and made it easily customisable from the top of the source file.

Archived Comments, replied by Robert Litzke @ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:54:18 -0500

Robert Litzke — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:54:18 -0500

Works well, but the icon could be a bit larger... it's like 10x10 pixels, hard to notice.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:12:58 -0500

znerp — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:12:58 -0500

UPDATE: now works for sun-sentinel.com

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:49:35 -0500

znerp — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:49:35 -0500

UPDATE: now works for wral.com.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:32:28 -0500

znerp — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:32:28 -0500

UPDATE: now works for uk.news.yahoo.com

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:53 -0500

znerp — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:53 -0500

UPDATE: now works for startribune.com.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:29:20 -0500

znerp — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:29:20 -0500

UPDATE: now works for news.com and nytimes.com. Thanks for the feedback, meno.

Archived Comments, replied by meno like-bugmenot @ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:00:38 -0500

meno like-bugmenot — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:00:38 -0500

hmmm...didn't seem to work on news.com or nytimes.com for me

Archived Comments, replied by Webb @ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:33:23 -0500

Webb — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:33:23 -0500

Thanks, znerp.

I prefer the whitelist because I already have my favorite news and entertainment sites hacked with css and I seldom need to bother with printer friendly versions.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:11:22 -0500

znerp — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:11:22 -0500

As it is, you can cut a lot out of it if that's how you'd like to use it. I'd suggest keeping it as-is for a few days though, because the box only pops up once per host, so after a while you'll see it much much less. That said, you'd want to make the code simply...

var allLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
if (document.location.href.match("print") == null) {
  for (var i = 0; i < allLinks.length; i++) {
    if (allLinks[i].href.match("print.html") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("print.shtml") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("/print/") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("/printer_friendly_story/") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("&pagewanted=print") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("/print?") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("type=printable") ||
        allLinks[i].href.match("&printer=1")) {
      document.location = allLinks[i].href;
    }//if (allLin...
  }//for (var i ...
}//if (docume...

... to get what you asked for.

Archived Comments, replied by Webb @ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:40 -0500

Webb — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:40 -0500

I really like this but I hate the popup box. Can you show me what to remove to get rid of it?

I'd rather edit the includes from the universal http:/ /* to my own whitelist.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:18:10 -0500

znerp — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:18:10 -0500

sorry, Junk Blocker, I can't seem to roll that into this script well, and it didn't seem to work for me, so I've made simple redirect just for wired.com ... it seems to work in all the articles I tried; it's at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7999. I'm not familiar with wired.com at all, so forgive me if I've made a glaring oversight. Both scripts ought to work well together.

Archived Comments, replied by Junk Blocker @ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:25:27 -0500

Junk Blocker — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:25:27 -0500

For wired.com, the logic is something like this:

if (document.location.hostname.match(/wired\.com$/) && document.location.href.match(/.\.html/) && !document.location.href.match(/_pr\.html/)) {
  var newurl = document.location.href.replace(/\.html/, '_pr.html');
  document.location = newurl;
  return;
}

if you wanna roll that up into the script.

Archived Comments, replied by znerp @ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:05:38 -0500

znerp — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:05:38 -0500

actually, yeah, I've done that. I'm an issue with it that I'm trying to work out before uploading it. The only way that I can see of doing this is by using GM_setValue, and these can be changed easily in about:config, but would take me more time than I want to spend at the moment to devise a more elaborate way of changing them. The issue I'm having is that it all works as expected, but if I reset the value in about:config, it throws a hissy fit and won't work. I think I'm doing something wrong in the GM_getValue, but I don't know what.

Archived Comments, replied by alien_scum @ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:42:46 -0500

alien_scum — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:42:46 -0500

Sweet script, makes reading the news on-line so much better, but that pop-up is starting to piss me off have you considered getting it to remember what you said for each domain?

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:24 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:24 -0600

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