flyguy wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote, On 11/29/2014 2:15 PM:
Looks like a WIX site. Proof again that making it easy doesn't make it
>good.
Heh. I've seen their TV ads. No mention of "works with any browser." I'd
still be reluctant to blame SeaMonkey/Firefox for the problems.
I don't think of it as "blaming". I want a browser that is as tolerant
of poor web design as possible, and If SM can make changes to improve
it's tolerance - Great! Otherwise, I'll continue to keep at least IE and
maybe another browser available for sites that SM doesn't handle well;
alternatively, I could try to talk the site's webmaster into fixing
stuff, but that sounds a like long shot.
Historically, it's been my observation that printing is the weakest part
of SM. If printing fails, IE has almost always been able to print it.
Not this time though - IE 11 also fails!
But what I don't understand is how a browser can display it properly on
the screen, but can't put the same display onto paper.
For what it's worth, I quite often see similar problems on other sites
and not always only with Mozilla browsers. Usually it seems to be down
to the CSS preventing the page (or parts of it) from being split across
pages. It displays fine since there are no page breaks - it's all one
big page which you can scroll around. On printing, it just runs off the
end of the first page and doesn't continue onto a second page. If you
set the page size large enough, or the print scale small enough, you'll
find it prints similarly to on-screen display (although in this case the
background image doesn't scale quite right - possibly another CSS problem).
There's one site I use (www.corporateperks.com) which goes to the
opposite extreme. The CSS is included for screen-only (media="screen" in
the <link> tags), so when printing no CSS is applied and everything is
out of place, menus are bullet-lists of links, etc. And that's even on
an order confirmation page with a statement "Please print and retain
this confirmation for your records"... It seems they haven't actually
tested printing it (I did report this problem to them with a previous
iteration of the site, and they confirmed they'd passed it on to their
web designers, but it still remains on the latest iteration). In this
case, applying the same CSS to printing leads to good output and no
obvious problems, so I'm not sure why they explicitly specify the CSS
for screen only!
Mark.
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