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Old Nov 5, 2011 | 2:57 am
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LIH Prem
 
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in chrome/mac, the new feature for gp members is done as a pop-up (with a retrieve button instead of just the pdf file), which of course many people have pop-up blockers and we're back to not being able to save the pdf file, all you can access is javascript again. I saved the page and all I can see is javascript, not embedded pdf in there this time.

In firefox/mac, the pop-up blocker printed a message, when I allowed it, a dialogue box opened asking me what I wanted to do with the file retrieve_hotel_bill.jsp, with the default action to save the file. I saved the file and had to manually edit the file to remove the html header from the embedded pdf file.

In safari, the bill opens in the pop up window and safari uses a more advanced pdf viewer than the other two browsers and was smart enough to save the pdf that it was displaying. The resulting filename was retrieve_hotel_bill.jsp.pdf.

ie9, pop-up blockers activated, so an annoying user experience, have to retry the operation to be able to view or save the pdf file, result is pdf file.

firefox 7.0.1/windows 7, pop-up blocker activated, so another annoying user experience, result is pdf.

So overall, the user experience is annoying because of the pop-up implementation and on the mac, it's difficult to get a pdf file output unless you use safari (or you are using some setting or add-on I'm not using that makes it work). Can you please fix this? They shouldn't rely on my settings being permissible to get pdf, it should just always work, if they remove the intermediate javascript it would work.

-David

Last edited by LIH Prem; Nov 5, 2011 at 4:17 am
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