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Re: Printing from JS
On Mar 20, 1:24pm, Brian Karlak wrote:
> Subject: Re: Printing from JS
> On Mar 20, 1:49pm, Ernie Oporto wrote:
>
> > > It is my understanding that NS considers any access to com ports
> > > a security violation, and thus is not allowed.
> >
> > I would figure that since Netscape itself can print, it should be
> > assumed that much access to a com port is trusted, so just passing
the
> > info to Netscape for *it* to handle the printing, rather than
direct
> > com port access to the script, should be trusted.
> >
> > > If you can print at all, don't count on being able to do so in
> > > the future.
> > >
> > > Chris Moses
> >
> > No ability to print so far. =(
>
> Oh boy, I can hardly wait to hit some JS spammer's site that causes
my printer
> to spit out 100 pages of "MY BOSS SUCKS EGGS" in 64 point type . . .
>
> No, I don't think JS needs to access my printer, thanks. If a user
wants to
> print something, she can choose "Print Frame" from the File menu,
thank you
> very much.
>
> Brian
Print frame...what an easy solution! I never even realized that
Netscape changes the "Print..." to "Print Frame..." when there are
frames present.
Thanks!
-Ernie
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