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| 13 | <a href="../../index.html">BASE 2.0</a> |
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| 15 | <a href="index.html">Web client specification</a> |
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| 17 | Browsers and scripting |
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| 20 | <h1>BASE 2.0 - Web client specification:<br> |
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| 21 | Browsers and scripting</h1> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <div class="abstract"> |
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| 24 | <p> |
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| 25 | This document covers what web browers should be supported/tested and |
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| 26 | generic rules for JavaScript scripting and Java applets. |
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| 27 | </p> |
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| 29 | <b>Contents</b><br> |
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| 30 | <ol> |
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| 31 | <li><a href="#browsers">Supported web browsers</a> |
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| 32 | <li><a href="#testing">Tested web browsers</a> |
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| 33 | <li><a href="#scripting">Scripting</a> |
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| 35 | </ol> |
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| 37 | <p class="authors"> |
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| 38 | <b>Last updated:</b> $Date: 2005-03-17 15:06:01 +0000 (Thu, 17 Mar 2005) $ |
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| 39 | </p> |
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| 40 | </div> |
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| 42 | <a name="browsers"> |
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| 43 | <h2>1. Supported web browsers</h2> |
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| 44 | </a> |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | <ol> |
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| 47 | <li>Most modern web browsers should be supported by the web client. |
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| 49 | <li>A modern web browser is a web browser with "reasonable" support |
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| 50 | for JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and W3C Document Object |
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| 51 | Model. |
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| 53 | <li>The meaning of "reasonable" is at the moment undefined. A starting |
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| 54 | point is the list of tested browsers below. |
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| 57 | </ol> |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | <a name="testing"> |
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| 60 | <h2>2. Tested web browsers</h2> |
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| 61 | </a> |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | <p> |
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| 64 | The following web browsers should be tested: |
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| 65 | </p> |
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| 66 | <ol> |
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| 67 | <li>Mozilla 1.6 for Linux |
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| 68 | <li>Netscape 7.0 for Linux |
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| 69 | <li>Internet Explorer 6 for Windows |
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| 70 | </ol> |
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| 72 | <a name="scripting"> |
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| 73 | <h2>3. Scripting</h2> |
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| 74 | </a> |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | <ol> |
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| 77 | <li>If possible, scripts should not be browser-specific, ie. the same script should |
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| 78 | work in all browsers. Only if nothing else works, it is allowed to test for |
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| 79 | a special web browser and use code designed for that browser. |
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| 80 | The reason for this is that it is harder to maintain the code if there |
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| 81 | are lots of browser-specific scripts. |
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| 82 | </ol> |
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