[whatwg] window.print() when printing is not supported

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:54:00 +0100, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi>  
wrote:
> currently  
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html#printing  
> says that window.print() should prompt user to print the page, but that  
> "For instance, a kiosk browser could silently ignore any invocations of  
> the print() method."
>
> A print button in web pages is quite common, and if pressing that  
> doesn't give any feedback (and the web page can't even detect if it  
> should give some feedback of missing printing), the user experience
> isn't quite optimal.
>
> So I think it *might* make sense to throw some error if printing isn't  
> supported. Or should browsers which don't support window.print() just
> not have print() method in the window object? (problem is that I'd guess  
> everyone just expects .print() to be there)

Throwing an error does not seem very compatible either.


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