[WEB4LIB] Re: new IE

[Diana Calder]

No, the print preview in IE5.5 SP2 is still broken where frames are
concerned (not only the "As laid out on screen" versus "Only the
selected frame" problem, but also the "Page 1 of
1"-no-matter-how-many-pages-there-really-are-if-frames-are-involved
problem, which is the one that Microsoft claims is "by design") -
plus, of course, Netscape-style plug-ins are now broken as well. Opera
5.x remains the only up-to-date browser with a print preview function
that actually works properly for both frames and non-framed pages.

Diana Calder
Automation Technician
Essex County Library
dcalder at essex.county.library.on.ca


Friday, August 24, 2001, 9:14:36 AM, Cathy Spiegel wrote:

CS> 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
CS> 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
CS> 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."

CS> Cathy Spiegel
CS> Library Systems Administrator
CS> Southfield Public Library
CS> (248) 948-0402
CS> 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
CS> isn't it doing, specifically??  Can you give example URLs and behaviors
CS> you seek in the browser?  Which bad behavior is "by design"?  How should
CS> it behave?
>>
>> I'm not disagreeing, just want to know what the issues are...  As we
CS> discussed recently Netscape had a Print Preview feature that vanished with
CS> version 6.
>>

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

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

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