[whatwg] [html5] window.print() undefined
Dean Edwards
dean at edwards.name
Tue Jul 19 01:40:53 PDT 2005
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Dean Edwards wrote:
>
>>Ian Hickson wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Dean Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>OK. Forget CSS for a moment (although this is still a consideration
>>>>for me). What if I want to suspend a timer while the page is being
>>>>printed?
>>>
>>>
>>>Printing is (supposedly) instantaneous. Why would you suspend a timer?
>>>(And why would the UA not suspend the timers itself?)
>>
>>Print Preview.
>
>
> If you do something during print preview, you're making big assumptions
> about the UI model. (e.g. that it is synchronous).
>
Fair enough. But in all the browsers I've tried when "Print Preview" is
selected the normal browser window disappears and is replaced with a new
window to show the preview. This is not instantaneous. The WHATWG takes
notice of real-world browsers does it not?
-dean
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