[whatwg] Browsers delay window.print() action until page load finishes
Ola P. Kleiven
olak at opera.com
Fri Jan 21 09:11:09 PST 2011
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:51:41 +0100, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>
wrote:
>
> There seems to be no provision in the spec for a behavior Firefox and IE
> (and now WebKit-based browsers, too) have. If window.print() is called
> during page load, then its action is delayed until loading is finished.
Opera is currently looking into a related issue. The issue we have is what
to do with
w = window.open(url)
w.print()
Right now Opera ignores print() here, but Yahoo!Mail depends on this for
their printing functionality.
> The WebKit bug that changed this most recently is
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43658> - it has some
> information about trickier aspects of the behavior. This looks like
> something that needs to be formally specified.
>
> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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Ola P. Kleiven
Core Compatibility PM
Opera Software
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