Re: RH web pages that refuse to print

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:14:32 -0500 (CDT) Vidiot
<brown mrvideo vidiot com> imparted to us:
> I am located at the following web page:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh72-errata.html
> 
> Click on any one of the links.  Try printing the page.  For me
> I get a blank sheet of paper.  I'm using Netscape 4.7 for Solaris
> 2.5.1.
> So, at lunch I tried from my Windoze 98SE box with Netscape.  I used
> it only because the printer attached to it is running.  The B&W
> printer
> that is attached to the Linux box is off (don't ask).  Again I tried
> printing.  This time I was informed that the page was blank.
> 
> I finally got the pages to print by right-clicking on the link and
> bringing
> up the document in a new page.
> 
> But, when I got back to work and tried doing that same trick, it
> didn't
> always work.
> 
> Just what the Hell is Red Hat doing to f**k up printing with Netscape?
> 
> Sites create these complicated pages that just have problems, one way
> or
> another.  That is why my site is written with the KISS principle.
> Browsers do not crash, pages print, etc.
> 
> Red Hat, please fix your site so that printing of web pages work!!!!

I just looked at it with galeon-0.12.5 and it prints just fine.

I've seen the behavior you're describing with MAC and mozilla as well:
have to open a frame in a new window to get it to print. Pages that
print on linux with mozilla-0.95 and galeon-0.12.X print ok, but not on
a slightly earlier version of mozilla on MAC. Might be something to do
with newer standards for web pages, but since I haven't checked the
source or anything, it's only a guess.

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