[WEB4LIB] Re: new IE

[Catherine Spiegel]

I have not been following this thread since I only subscribed to this list yesterday, but I believe the IE service pack 2 does take care of the print frame problem.  This was info I received from Teamsoftware's Public Web Browser (PWB).  "The newly released Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 fixes the PWB Print Preview problem caused by installing the IE security patchs. IE 5.5 SP2 also fixes the PWB problem when the child window trys to control the parent window causing an error. Plus quite a few other minor enhancments. See MS KB article 303201 for more information."

Cathy Spiegel
Library Systems Administrator
Southfield Public Library
(248) 948-0402
spiegelc at metronet.lib.mi.us

>>> Thomas Dowling<tdowling at ohiolink.edu> 08/24/01 07:50AM >>>
> Could you folks be more specific?  What do you want IE to do, and what
isn't it doing, specifically??  Can you give example URLs and behaviors
you seek in the browser?  Which bad behavior is "by design"?  How should
it behave?
>
> I'm not disagreeing, just want to know what the issues are...  As we
discussed recently Netscape had a Print Preview feature that vanished with
version 6.
>

One standing bug with the IE print preview is that it always displays
framesets as though the setting for File/Print/Options/Print Frames were
set to "As laid out on screen".  The probable expectation is that print
preview should detect if that's set to "Only the selected frame" or "All
frames individually" and adjust its display accordingly.  I can confirm
that this misbehavior continues in IE 6, at least through build 2479.

BTW, both IE and Netscape 6.1 now support the Print Selection function,
which is another good way to address the issue of printing less than a
whole document.

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



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