If you're using a templating system of some sort,
if should be pretty easy to check the USER_AGENT and only
compress if it's IE. Or NOT compress is it's NS.
That's about the only way to do it easily that I can think of,
and we're planning on implementing.
<rant mode="on">
I WANT to like netscape. REALLY. But they've pretty much made it
impossible by not fixing things. Historically, NS had an edge on features
over IE, imo, till the 4 series. Neck and neck, again, imo. But
without any significant changes in years its just way behind the times.
Reloading a page to do 'view source'? (Sorry - POSTED data!)
Reloading a page to print?
Reloading a page after a browser resize?
Just ridiculous engineering, imo. Even more so when you figure that,
when this was first out, every one was on 14.4 modems.
<rant mode="off">
Hopt that helps.
Renze Munnik wrote:
> Thanks for bringing up this solution. However... I already thought
> of this option myself. Problem, though, is that _ALL_ my pages
> should be printable. Maybe a very small number of pages will not
> have to be printable, but those are so small that the compression
> isn't realy necesary. Besides that I don't realy like sites that use
> separate 'printer-friendly' pages. When I'm looking at some page I
> just want to be able to print it rightaway. And I want to give my
> clients this opportunity to. That's why I also have a separate
> (extra/own) print-button on my sites. The user can just use that
> without realy having to know how the browser works (concerning
> printing). Because you will just not believe how 'stupid' some users
> are.
>
> But anyway... any other solutions are ofcourse _very_ much welcome
> and I'll keep y'all posted a.s.a. I get some more info about this
> subject.
>
> RenzE
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:49:45AM +0100, Jurian wrote:
> > Hehe, I've seen that before, stupid netscape :-)
> > We're using output compression as well, what we did, was make an option to
> > disable compression (http://site/file.html?skip_compress=true) in the
> > compression function. Then have a "printer friendly page" button on pages
> > you want to be printable, that links to the current page, with the
> > skip_compress=true option. That way the browser gets the uncompresses
> > version, and prints ok again. I haven't been able to get netscape to print
> > the uncompressed text when the output is compressed, if you somehow find a
> > way that doesn't require reloading the page with an option like
> > skip_compress, please, let me know :-)
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Jurian
> >
>
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