print() in IE MAC

[Garrett]

hello

can anyone tell me why this never works in IE 5 on mac

<a href="#" onmousedown="javascript:window.print()"><img src="print.gif" width="25" height="20"></a>

and no problem on netscape, is there a solution for IE mac?

Garrett

[Scot-Bot]

Hi,

I asked this in a thread a few days ago. No, one could confirm yay or nay, but in a sample piece of code I saw somewhere else, Macs appeared not to be supported. Pity.

[Garrett]

surely there is some way of calling the printer from explorer on a mac? this function has existed since netscape 3!!!!

ok so maybe it does'nt do it in javascript but does anyone know of any other way, some jscript, php anything?

Garrett

[Scot-Bot]

Javascript and JScript are moreless the same thing, the latter merely being MS's version. There isn't an exclusively IE method, they both call window.print.

As for PHP, this is a server side language and is therefore irrelevant here. What you want to do can only be achieved on the client machine and therefore you need a client side scripting language such as JS.

Server side languages serve up pages according to certain values and conditions (for want of a better way of putting it), whereas client side scripts allow you to manipulate the browser itself.

I hate to say it, but tough cookies.