Is FireFox fully supported?

[Bob Cergol]

I am just exploring Dynamic AI and have run into some things not working in Firefox. Therefore, being new to DAI, in order to separate browser issues from my errors, I feel I have to use IE. Should I expect identical functionality between IE and Firefox? (Note: I have an IE rendering engine add-on for Firefox that I am using instead of actually firing up IE.)

Bob

[Carsten Sørensen]

Hi Bob,

You are correct that some functionality are only available for IE. It's our intention that you should be able to use any of the main browsers for Dynamic AI - however this goal has been gradually implemented over the last couple of years - and we continue to improve and uniform the look and feel across browsers such as IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome.

To our knowledge we support the USE of Dynamic AI through all browsers currently. For DEVELOPMENT - the Free Form Layout option + the use of Active X graph design options (in the Server/Enterprise editions) are limited to IE for the moment.

If you find any other places where you hit limitations we would appreciate to know!

Thanks for your feedback!

Best regards,
Carsten

[Bob Cergol]

Hi Carsten,

One place I found that misbehaves in fire-fox that an end-user would encounter is the slider bar in the left pane.

SliderBarBehavior_1.gif shows positioning the mouse getting ready to left click and slide the bar down.

SliderBarBehavior_2.gif shows the result as soon as you do that.

Bob

P.S. How can I control the position of uploaded images in my message to get them sequenced in the message to match the text they go with?

[admin]

Hi Bob,

About positioning uploaded pictures. You can do it by placing the attachment tag in your post (theres a "Place inline" button that adds the attachment at the current cursor position :

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Heres t2:[attachment=0]t2.png[/attachment]
and t1: [attachment=1]t1.png[/attachment]

Results in:
Heres t2:

This Is T2

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and t1:

This is T1

t1.png (10.71 KiB) Viewed 9018 times

and

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Heres t1:[attachment=1]t1.png[/attachment]
and t2: [attachment=0]t2.png[/attachment]

Results in:
Heres t1:

This is T1

t1.png (10.71 KiB) Viewed 9018 times

and t2:

This Is T2

t2.png (15.51 KiB) Viewed 9018 times

Best regards
Bo

[Bob Cergol]

Thanks Bo,
I hadn't noticed the "place in-line" button.

[Carsten Sørensen]

Hi Bob,

Bo was able to reproduce the behavior in newest versions of Firefox. What seems to happen is that Firefox now supports drag actions in this case the way that IE does - however with what looks like a bug in some cases.

To explain:

We have used the drag event to allow easy "swipping" (IPhone inspired I guess) between Reports and Database tabs without having to move the mouse-pointer to the bottom toolbar (lazy guys we are). It works flawless with IE. However I think we have had someone else in the past reporting the action as an error for IE as well - so I guess we better remove it - at least for Firefox - as it might be too "internal" and apparently now incompatible with Firefox.

Thanks for reporting it!

Best regards,
Carsten