Re: <body onload="window.print(); window.close();">

From: Randy Webb <HikksNotAtHome@aol.com>
Date: Mon Dec 26 2005 - 13:50:42 CET

RobG said the following on 12/25/2005 11:51 PM:
> VK wrote:

<snip>

>> The only reason it works (sometimes!) in IE - is that IE as usual makes
>> extra step to try to understand user's intentions.
>
>
> Hardly. IE appears to do exactly what Firefox does - it waits for the
> outcome of the print dialog before proceeding with the script which
> would appear to be the logical thing to do.

IE6.0 Win XP SP2 with this code:

window.print();
alert('window.print complete');

I get that alert before I get the window.print window. So IE doesn't
wait for the outcome of window.print() to move on.

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Randy
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Received on Tue Jan 3 03:55:03 2006

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