Re: Apple iMac and Webfacing

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Only thing I can assume they are using an IE specific XML layer or
underlying vbscript.

Would be interesting to see the source code of the webpage it generates.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:52 PM
Subject: Apple iMac and Webfacing


> Anyone have any ideas why an iMac would have problems accessing a
> Webfaced page? It looks like Webfacing is choking on Unicode (UTF-8), but
> the iMac is using Unicode and Webfacing is setup to use Unicode. Can't
> access the page with Safari or Firefox at all (since it's not IE). IE 5.2
> gets the Unicode error, and Opera responding as IE 5.0 gets a 'get a
> later browser' error.
>
> IBM (lack of) support says...'Webfacing doesn't support Macs', which I
> feel is kinda lame. IBM doesn't seem to know much about Webfacing...I've
> had some long delays with support requests...it's almost not worth the
> time spent on the phone.
>
> Cross posting to Ignite.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Thanks...
>
> - Michael
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