views:

14

answers:

0

I have a request to enable some links on a web page for PRINT and SAVE.

Historically I've always avoided those as in the past they weren't supported in all browsers and OSes and, well, I also found them annoying as a user. I tended to opt for 'print friendly' functionality or, barring that, just proper print CSS.

That said, I'm being asked to do that.

Anyone know of a resource that points out the current support for calling the PRINT and SAVE functions of the browser from JavaScript across browsers and operating systems?

Oh...I should add...for SAVE I realize we could easily do this with a standard link back to the server to request something to be streamed back or in a file format that would, by default, trigger the save dialogue. For the sake of this question, I'm referring to a solely browser-side implementation (meaning SAVE would likely just save the HTML page).