Print from Mobile safari web app
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17-04-2021 - |
Question
Mobile safari for ios4.2 allow printing via air print. Is it possible to do the same via a web app using javascript i.e window.print(); ? I run my webapp using the follow meta tags.
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="default" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
Solution
On a normal webpage, window.print();
will indeed invoke the printing dialog.
Unfortunately it seems that when a webpage is run in the fullscreen webapp mode, window.print();
has no effect (as of iOS 4.2.6). Obviously this could change in the future.
OTHER TIPS
I can confirm that as of iOS 5.0 window.print(); now allows for printing via AirPrint.
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