User talk:Shahid

Greetings - please leave me a message if you want to get in touch! Shahid 21:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Print/Noprint
Regarding my blog query about print on/ print off options.

It would be easy for my templates to shut on or off display if there was any queryable state that is different when the pdf generator is working. For example, in the edit state, __REVISIONID__ is null. I doubt this is the case, but I thought I'd ask.

Alternatively, give me a minor feature that is useful for other purposes that I can unofficially abuse. For example, allow users have MagCloud to access the articles with a particular user language setting. The utility of this say on a game wiki is that all the table columns are printed out in russian or whatever since the site has been good and used int: messaging in their infobox templates.

How would I get what I want in an unsupported, undocumented way? I tell my contributors to set the language to english simple. The templates check value int:lang, and if the message is english simple, I know MagCloud is active and I do my layout accordingly (no tabs, no edit links, and so on). This sort of thing would allow me to do a hack solution to the problem in advance of any real CSS solution.

Just a thought. Although our user base is small, I'd post the hack to DanTman's developer wiki so that other possibly higher volume customers of MagCloud could also use it. 22:18, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

MagCloud tool hack
Hi Phlox - thanks for the followup.

I just grabbed one of our developers to talk about this - we both think that the idea of marking up content for printing using CSS is a good idea, and we'd prefer to use a dedicated tag rather than nick something unused.

First order is for us to get an idea of the demand for the service as a whole. Since we've only just released it (the talk page message went out a few hours ago!) it's hard to assess that right now - so we're going to hold fire on the tool for now.

Again - thank you for your interest in the tool. I hope you'll continue to use it and find it useful! --Shahid 00:43, October 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Spoken like a veteran program manager. Okay.  The developer and I no doubt see eye to eye on what the right way to do this is.  I would settle for some tweak that will allow me to generate a hack solution in the meantime.  Hopefully thousands of folks will be ordering tons of game hints MagCloud magazines, and you can justify the expenditure of developer resources.   20:21, October 23, 2009 (UTC)