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Subject:Re: Help: HTML Form printing... From:Suzanne Maloon <maloon -at- CDEPOT -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:02:47 -0700
Well, Bill,
There's this theory that only two things came out of Berkeley -- LSD and
UNIX. Go figure..... ;-)
Actually, I think the reason behind this may be that UNIX isn't graphically
interfaced, hence the development of browsers that are more "GUI".
That's the extent of MY input...good luck.
Suzanne Plasse Maloon
maloon -at- cdepot -dot- net
215 Mason Street
Jackson, CA 95642
209-223-1011
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| From: Bill Bledsoe <bill -dot- bledsoe -at- cms-stl -dot- com>
| To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
| Subject: Help: HTML Form printing...
| Date: Tuesday, September 02, 1997 2:25 PM
|
| Okay... so I've question here... and please... I do not want to turn
| this into a debate about the merits of printing HTML documents.... I've
| come up with an anomoly that I don't understand... so I'm looking for an
| answer or specific situation that is similar to this...
|
| A developer in our shop has built a simple HTML form. He has check box
| and text box input types on it. Now... the SOLE purpose of this form is
| for someone to fill-in the appropriate information, check the boxes
| he/she needs, and print the document with all of the inputed
| information.. That's it. He doesn't want to email it to anyone, he
| doesn't want "push it" or "pull it" anywhere... just wants to print
| what he's entered.
|
| Now... here's the problem: From my Windows Machine, running Netscape
| Communicator, I can fill in data, and print the form. However, from our
| UNIX workstations, when we input the same text, check the same boxes...
| and... poof! no data in the form, and no checks in the boxes (heck, we
| don't even SEE the check boxes on the output!!).
|
| My question to the group? Splain this one to me... why is it different
| on the Windows box? Is it because the Windows Print Engine is handling
| the printing duties, and it allows for form data to print? Is it a
| Communicator bug?
|
| Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...
|
| regards,
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