Re: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce

[Michael Penne]

Ah, no, the core is that MSIE 5 prints the first frame

only of flash movies. w/as MSIE 4.x (MAc/Win) and

Netscape (Mac/Win) print the current frame (the frame

the viewer currently has in front of them) of a flash

movie. It is most likely an MSIE 5 bug, however, it

removes a great deal of functionality from the use of

flash for sites that people may want to print sections

of, whether for client proofing, to print certain

information, etc. Flash printing from the older

versions of the browsers while not beautiful, was

acceptable for printing educational material, product

info, forms, etc. directly from the flash page. Given

the overwhelming market share of MSIE, however, it

appears that flash will no longer be very usable for

information rich sites that users may want to print

sections of, and to me, that is too bad...


I understand that Flash relies on the browser for

printing support, however, it does seem to me that

Macromedia should be a bit upset that MS has broken

plug-in printing support in the latest upgrade to the

dominant browser, and perhaps foolishly I suspect that

Macromedia may have more leverage to get MS to fix

this problem than I?


--- John Dowdell <

jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com

> wrote:

> 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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