Re: Unable to print the blue line on maps.google.com for directions?

Patrick Dickey wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> Ant wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/30/2005 4:25 PM PT, Rod O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Is anyone else having problems printing out the directions from
>>>>> maps.google.com in Mozilla v1.7.8? The blue overlay line does not
>>>>> show up in both maps and aerial maps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Internet Explorer v6.0 SP2 had no problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Why do you insist on using a program that is written by amateurs and
>>>> is a known piece of shit? Go back to IE and let the kiddies play with
>>>> their toy.... 
>>>
>>> Because I have a choice to use Web browsers. I hate IE.
>>
>> Death to IE
>> Death to Microsoft
>> May BG live a short life.
>>
>> I have no respect at all for any pro-Microsoft individuals. Microsoft is
>> evil, and so is every executive in the company. The rest work for an
>> evil corporation. Moz, despite flaws, is not evil, in fact it is
>> righteous. Moz vs. IE is a conflict between good and evil in our world
>> today.
> 
> Hmmm.. Then you have no respect for me, I take it.  Since, I'm a tester
> for Microsoft products (as well as other products from other companies).
>  But that's not the point of my reply here (just a minor addition to it).
> 
> My question is this.  Do you know the answer to his original question?
> Mozilla, in all of it's righteousness doesn't print the blue line on
> maps.  Why? And what can he do to fix that?  But, the evil incarnation
> "Internet Explorer" can print the blue line.

Look at Ralph Fox's post below. Apparently this problem barely even 
exists. The blue line does print if one prints from the webpage but not 
if one prints from the menu. And there is a browser sniffer looking for 
browser versions, which is ominous. Ralph suggests that the problem is 
due to CSS or Javascript. IOW, this stinking Google webpage was written 
specifically to work only with MS IE and deliberately impairs the 
performance of all other browsers. That's not Moz' fault. If I build a 
car and you make your the roads in your town so my cars can't drive on 
them, in order to force ppl to buy your cars instead of mine, that's not 
my problem. Which is the MS story in a nutshell.

So, the blue line does indeed print using Mozilla.
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