[thelist] Prevent Printing

Drew Shiel ashiel at sportsinteraction.com
Tue Mar 23 11:21:33 CST 2004


At 17:05 23/03/2004, Rob Smith wrote:
>Is there any conceivable way to prevent printing in a web based application?

   Not really. If it's moving as text over http, the print controls are at 
the browser end. I'd imagine it's theoretically possible to disable it via 
javascript - although I can't think how - but that's easy to circumvent. 
So, generally, no, not possible.

   Drew.

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