The page I am working on has a javascript function executed to print parts of the page. For some reason, printing in Safari, causes the window to somehow update. I say somehow, because it does not really refresh as in reload the page, but rather it starts the "rendering" of the page from start, i.e. scroll to top, flash animations start from 0, and so forth. The effect is reproduced by this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fYmnB/ Clicking the print button and finishing or cancelling a print in Safari causes the screen to "go white" for a sec, which in my real website manifests itself as something "like" a reload. While running print button with, let's say, Firefox, just opens and closes the print dialogue without affecting the fiddle page in any way. Is there something with my way of calling the browsers print method that causes this, or how can it be explained - and preferably, avoided? P.S.: On my real site the same occurs with Chrome. In the ex
First, forget about old browsers, it's 2012 after all. You won't be able to draw circle without having such css properties as "border-radius".
ReplyDeleteSecond, no matter what, you'll have to use javascript in order to do the "drawing". jQuery + jQuery UI would be great for that. It appears like you'd need at least following plugins:
Draggable - to drag your shapes around
Resizable - to resize shapes
Dialog - to put text into the shape (there must be a textarea within the dialog. After you fill textarea and click Ok text will be put into the shape).
There's another way to put text into shapes, but that'll require some serious development efforts.
Now, how to create shapes. There are couple of ways:
Button which you'll have to click and which will create a box with set parameters
Use boxer plugin
That's the gist of it.
Rendering of the saved shapes is quite a different thing and i believe it shouldn't be problematic. Just fetch data from DB and based on it's properties render shapes.