[opencms-dev] How browser-compatible is opencms?

[Ilja]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:33:01 -0600, "M Butcher"
<mbutcher at grcomputing.net> said:
> Currently the back office requires ActiveX for the editor GUI, though
> without it you can still edit the HTML tags.

Why ActiveX? AFAIK this is limited to IE right? Why limit your users to
IE, when you can make editors who work in Mozilla browsers as well?

> Also, it uses fairly sophisticated JavaScript, and while the kHTML engine that Safari uses is
> good at HTML rendering and CSS, its ECMAScript/JavaScript engine is a
> little bit behind. I would expect to see that change in the near future,
> as I know the developers are working hard on it (at least in KDE-land).

True, Safari is still quite poor in javascript. But on the other hand:
why rely on javascript so much? For instance, is it possible to use
opencms with javascript switched off?

> Anyway... both IE and Mozilla (or Netscape 6/7) will work fine for the
> backoffice portion.

Allright, Camino (a mozilla project) didn't work with the wizard
though...

> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 05:51, Ilja wrote:
> > I'm worried about browser compatible-ness of opencms. I allready noticed
> > that I could run the wizard only with Internet Explorer (on Mac OSX that
> > is), both Safari and Camino couldn't run the wizard. And both browsers
> > are known for their strict standard-following...
> > 
> > So how compatible is opencms with other browsers besides IE? Note that I
> > have not been able to check it out yet, since I encounter numerous
> > problems installing opencms...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ilja
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