Alternate, Print, PDF Document

[Charles]

Ok, what am I doing wrong here? Browsers don't seem to want to prnt the alternate, PDF version. Thanks.

http://www.saintjohns.ang-md.org/sermons/2003-01-05.shtml

[swon]

Hi Charles, by clicking on the link it opens a new window with the pdf-application within. I can print it by clicking the icon in the acrobat or browser toolbar, so it just works fine.

[Stefan]

Tested print preview of the wepage

Works for me using
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021228 Phoenix/0.5

Does not work (empty page) in IE/Win 6.01 (didn't try to actually print).

Opera 7b2 also seems to botch it up (but at least shows the normal webpage).
O 6.05 thinks it's a frames page ?!?! But it also shows at least the webpage.

[Charles]

So what are we saying here, that I should give up trying to make "<link href="2003-01-05.pdf" media="Print" rel="Alternate" type="application/pdf"> work?

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Charles
So what are we saying here, that I should give up trying to make "<link href="2003-01-05.pdf" media="Print" rel="Alternate" type="application/pdf"> work?

Perhaps not give up... but definitly start writing bugrapports.

Opera 7 is still during beta so it might get fixed before final and IE, well you need to leave that manual "print version" link for a few more years anyway I guess, but making a bugraport might get this fixed for IE 7(?)


Ooops,update:
As it turns out Gecko isn't really showing the pdf either, just a different looking version of the webpage with colors.
Guess that's 1 more bugraport to write :(

[Stefan]

Here is that bug in Gecko BTW.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104618

[Charles]

I guess everybody knows about the problem and I guess I'll just have to give up on another one of my dreams. Thanks for your help though.

[Robert Wellock]

I gave up my dreams about Micro$oft practicing what it preaches seen as though it's a W3C member, years ago. I am waiting to see if the bring out .CSS.