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[_] A list Apart: print to preview article

Rick Hurst rick.hurst at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 20:20:27 GMT 2006

On 11/16/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:

>
> on 16/11/06 17:38, Pete Fairhurst at pete at markedup.co.uk wrote:
>
> > Having slagged this technique off, I've since implemented it for 3Sixty
> > (yes, I am their newest employee - hurrah!) and I'm afraid it's actually
> > rather bloody clever. Visit the 3Sixty site and then click on "Print
> this
> > page" in the footer (temporary location) for an example of what this can
> > look like:
>
> My only complaint would be that the "back" button doesn't work from inside
> the print preview. You actually have to click the "cancel" button to go
> back.
>
> However, having clicked "cancel", you then need to press the Back button 3
> times to really get back to the previous page, because it's directed you
> first to #printPreviewNotice, then just to #.
>

The similar technique I pointed out doesn't suffer from this as it actually
reloads the page with different stylesheets rather than using javascript

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Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
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