[Sigia-l] Auto CSS Print Functionality and Platform Dependence

[Hal Taylor]

> Please take a look at
> http://multimedia.maimonides.edu/art/?articulos/tecnologia/redes.htm
> 
> Click the "IMPRIMIR" button, the first one below the breadcrumbs.
> 
> Style switches for a second to CSS print view, while the Print dialog
> appears. 
> Then goes back to screen css.
> 
> GOOD:
> - The user gets a preview without asking
> - No extra steps in the proccess
> 
> BAD:
> - Not that it will cause epileptic seizure, but somewhat shocking anyway. As
> Austin said, my mother might be puzzled by such a huge screen redraw.

Hello, Manuel.

Don't know anything about your target audience, but note that this
functionality does not work well at all under Mac OS X. Using Safari, the
button doesn¹t do anything at all. Using Internet Explorer, I do get a
screen redraw, with some ugly artifacts, but don't get the print dialog
(which I believe is a Windows-only JS feature), don't get taken back to the
original view *and* cannot use my browser's "back" button to get back. So
you might add "not cross-platform friendly" to the BAD list.

-Hal