[WEB4LIB] Re: [WEBLIB] RE: Netscape link problems...

[Thomas Dowling]

From: "John N. Haliotis Jr." <valhalla at nslsilus.org>


> The one reason I've kept Netscape around instead of switching to IE is
> printing.  Although I am annoyed sometimes by the fact that Netscape
> reloads the entire page before it prints it, IE seems to have a problem
> printing wide pages (above 640 pixels) which often includes products
like
> InfoTrac and ProQuest.  My having to go and reboot machines now and then
> makes up for my patrons being able to read the information they just
> printed.  If Microsoft fixed this problem (and it still happens on my
> machine, where I use IE 5.01 and Netscape 4.7 for testing) I would
> probably switch today.

This might be tied to printer drivers.  I just took a couple of browsers
to www.cnn.com, with a 770-pixel wide table (boo, hiss!).  On our Lexmark
printer, IE 5.5b printed it correctly in landscape, but printed a blank
page in portrait.  On our old HP IIIsi, it did what Netscape 4.7 does:
printed it correctly in landscape, and printed it mostly correctly in
portrait, but with text cut off at the right margin ("Northern Irish
government awaits" - awaits what?).

Since we're not debating who's got the best browser, I won't say who was
consistently able to print the page correctly and completely.  But as a
hint, its name starts with "O" and it ends with "pera".

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu