On or about Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:20:07 GMT, Mike Koenecke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>On or about Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:07:46 -0700, Dave Close
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>
>>Ben Ruppel wrote:
>>
>>> It's a bug, though I thought it was fixed recently. Try printing
>>> without hitting the "print this map" image on the page.
>>>
>>> Mike Koenecke wrote:
>>>> Anyone run into this problem? Go to MapQuest using Mozilla, get a map,
>>>> and try to print it (grayscale). On my Lexmark Optra S 1250, the map
>>>> comes out blank, though the surrounding text and the MapQuest logo do
>>>> print. Prints fine using Internet Explorer. Windows 2000 Pro system,
>>>> Mozilla 0.9.4.
>>
>>It's probably not fixed because a related problem is certainly not fixed.
>>
>>On nearly any image, right-clicking presents a menu offering to save the
>>image, view the image, and some other choices. For maps on Mapquest and
>>MapsOnUs, that doesn't happen. Lately I get the choice to open the frame
>>alone, though choosing that produces a blank copy of the Mozilla window.
>>
>>Also, there isn't any frame, so the choice makes no sense.
>>
>>
>>It's changed recently, and that's an improvement. Formerly, it would
>>freeze the entire browser. However, it's not clear that the change was
>>deliberate rather than accidental.
>>
>>I opened a bug on this a while back but it never went anywhere.
>
>Interesting. I wonder if there's some non-standards-compliant code in
>there somewhere? I do know MapQuest worked fine for me when I was
>using Netscape 4.x, but that's not saying anything about standards
>compliance. Good news, though: map printing appears to work just fine
>on MapBlast (http://www.mapblast.com). So I'll go that route instead.
Oops. Spoke too soon. Nothing gets sent to the printer from MapBlast,
but at least you can save the GIF.
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Mike Koenecke
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