That's a cool idea Randy. Way to be thinking outside the box! -=The other Randy
On 7/30/07 2:41 PM, "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes it would be nice to be able to print or otherwise capture a > screen from an iPhone app. > > It occurred to me that, using the HTML mailto capability (described at > http://www.iphonewebdev.com/examples/mailto.html), it might be > possible to permit iUI-based apps (as well as others) to "print" by > having the print button link look roughly like this: > > mailto:?subject=Hello&body=<div {size-constraints}>...{screen- > contents}...</div> > > where screen-contents would be the DOM HTML for whatever element makes > the most sense in iUI. The div would have to be constrained to fixed > width, but as a bonus it could be rotation-sensing. The user can > select any email address in their contact list. > > If this all works, this would permit the user to then print the iPhone > web app screen from any HTML-compliant email client, as long as the > enclosed HTML was supported by the HTML rendering engine for their > email client. > > I have not had a chance to try this out, but I throw it out for > discussion. > > Thanks, > -Randy > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
