BlogCFC Print Using DOM Injection
For some reason I clicked the print button on my blog the other day. It opened up a PDF in the tab I was in. Well, I just didn't like that (sorry Ray).
I recently built a print feature for an AJAX heavy project at work. Since this project uses Spry, the detail you see doesn't exist until javascript renders it in the browser. So, I came up with a solution of opening another window and then pushing the rendered contents into it. The new window even has a print.css. So, although it's the same mark-up, it looks different.
If you want to see the code I wrote for work you can check it out here. Just drill all the way into a vehicle and click the print button on the right.
Anyway, I used the same idea to change the print functionality on my blog. I've posted the resulting code and instructions for download here.
If anyone uses it I would love to hear about it.
Other then that it looks cool. Not sure why you had to use AJAX/Spry for this though?
I'll get rid of the window closing when I get a chance. That was an example of me getting a little too clever :-).
And I didn't use Spry or AJAX for the print implementation on BlogCFC. I was saying that I came up with this concept while working on a Spry/AJAX heavy project at work. Which means nothing is rendered until Spry renders it...