Dave Raggett wrote:
Internet Explorer provides two events that are very useful
for web applications involving dynamic html when it comes to
printing. These are onbeforeprint and onafterprint.
As an example, consider HTML Slidy
http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy
Slidy uses CSS for layout and a linked script to present div elements as
slides, one slide at time. The other slides are
hidden by setting the div element's display property to none and
visibility to hidden.
This looks great for presentation purposes, but if the user tries
to print the page then the browser will only print the currently
visible slide. Most of the time, that isn't what people expect.
Instead they want to have all of the slides printed.
This use case is more easily handled using a print stylesheet.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
