Re: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce

[John Dowdell]

At 5:14 PM 10/1/99, Michael Penne wrote:

> I checked the MS KB and nothing on this subjet, MACR

> technotes ditto. I'd really like to hear from MACR at

> least, 'yes we akknowledge and are working on....' before

> recomending the use of Flash for anything someone might

> want to print...


Is the core here something like "Does the Flash Player guarantee printing

on all machines?"


If so, then no, the Flash Player itself is rather small and is tuned for

portability and screen displays. It doesn't contain various printer driver

corrections. You can print out of it if the host application supports

printing of its plugin, Control, or applet content. Flash itself doesn't

have anything to do with connecting to a printer, though.


(If a sub-question is "How can I provide my visitors with a printable page,

regardless of browser?" then that's hard, because not all computers have

printers attached. I'd tend to lean towards serverside generation of custom

HTML pages, just because some browsers have an easier time printing their

basic content than their extended content. Your mileage may vary though...

people could make design decisions either way.)


jd







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