Anthony Jawad schreef:
This dependency should not be necessary for something like printing
as it is basic functionality in most browsers (not sure about mobile
devices though).
I think your concern about mobile devices emphasizes why this is
probably a bad idea: the fact that such a feature would make no sense
for many sorts of user agents suggests that it's very fundamentally
beyond the scope of HTML.
Perhaps you're right. You sure need a printer to print of course,
although you cannot check for that either, even with client side scripting.
But what about the mailto-pseudo-protocol then? If you have no
configurated email client installed on the system you're working on then
that won't work either.
Perhaps a solution would be for user agents that don't have a print
feature to hide these print links or, even better, to provide a way to
print to file.
cheers,
Sander
