Javascript is the given, but I have also had problems where things show up
just fine in IE and not in FF, and vice versa. Then we get to go down the
fun road of see which browser was either more lax and is displaying it
correctly or which one is bucking inappropriately.
The only other issue you may have to worry about is handheld devices....
But who really uses those to surf except to check the weather..
I actually use it a lot (Blackberry) to check news, find directions, find
which airport terminal I should be going to (did that tonight), get phone
numbers for businesses. I am finding an increasing number of sites will try
to be handheld friendly by putting links at the top of pages named "Skip To
Content" which upon clicking re-anchors you to the text you want to read.
I'd much rather, personally, deal with different browsers than different
OS's.
It would be interesting to see how hard it would be to create a "rich
client" that stayed away from OS specific features as much as possible and
simply ran in the current JVM. It *should* work, and I have seen it work
fairly flawlessly (i.e. taking J2EE apps from System i5 and running them on
Windows - obviously that isn't talking desktop situations).
With that said I quickly tried loading my very simple Web Service Tester
Java application in my Ubuntu Linux VMWare session and did find a
difference. In the following image notice the "Content-type" field label
gets cut off on the linux interface but NOT in Windows. Jeeeeuunk!
Guessing it has to do with the render engine implemented on each OS that the
JRE is calling.
http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/Java_gui_linux_vs_windows.jpg
Well, maybe someday we will be able to run GUI applications on the iSeries -
sigh.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Bradley V. Stone
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: GUI development language
I am simply saying that the
environments to write for are less in number vs. having to retest your
web app with each browser on each OS. I still remember my first RPG
CGI app about seven years ago. It worked fine with IE on Windows and
did work fine with IE on the Mac.
Aaron,
If that's the case you did something VERY wrong. The HTML validator is your
friend. If you're referring to issues with Javascript, yes, you have to
dumb down some things to the LCD but it's rare.
HTML is a pretty good standard. So if it's the browser that had issues with
WC3 validated web pages, you can only blame the browser (and thus tell them
to upgrade or forget it.. if they have problems with yours, they won't be
able to shop Amazon either).
Program for IE, test with Firefox. There you've covered 99% of your bases.
The only other issue you may have to worry about is handheld devices.... But
who really uses those to surf except to check the weather..
I'd much rather, personally, deal with different browsers than different
OS's.
Brad
www.bvstools.com
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