Last modified: 2013-08-27 16:46:34 UTC
Can't see any use case for it, and it causes problems with our fundraising facts banners overlapping the text.
Apparently this also causes banner to be shown on mobile devices... (when viewed in print view...)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76863
There are other interesting cases such as screen-readers, but we'll rebuild those bridges as needed.
(In reply to comment #2) > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76863 Patch got merged. Closing bug report as FIXED, but please reopen if more work is needed (and elaborate).
For the record; the patch will 'just work' for banners that do not autohide (e.g. will not work for fundraising banners.) Banners that do autohide/display will need to add either a window.matchMedia() query; or detect if printable=yes -- and if in print mode not display themselves.