{"id":7424,"date":"2005-03-09T07:40:25","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/09\/firefox-incompatibilities.html"},"modified":"2005-03-09T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T14:40:25","slug":"firefox_incompa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/firefox_incompa.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox incompatibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rrg.<\/p>\n<p>While many FF proponents tout how Firefox can work with anything (except for M$&#8217;s evil Windows Update site), and thus they never use IE, I am not nearly so lucky.  IE is our company standard, and any number of applications we have require its use, either explicitly or because they don&#8217;t display correctly otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily blame FF for this &#8212; I&#8217;m sure the majority of it is a matter of either IE-&#8220;standards&#8221;-specific coding (ActiveX or not), or, in some cases, just goofines.  For an example of the latter, we use an aging version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentum.com\/products\/editions\/collaboration\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">eRoom<\/a> for some document collaboration projects.  It does not (at that version) support Firefox &#8212; and it confirms that to you by not letting you even try.  Click on an eRoom link, and it routes you to a &#8220;this only use IE version xyz or Netscape 4.7&#8221; page.  Now, I suspect that if it supports NS 4.7, it will support FF, but the program doesn&#8217;t even give you a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/ieview.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ieview<\/a> extension.  If I go to a page that doesn&#8217;t work with FF, I right-click and choose ieview from the context menu and the page is opened up in IE.  Nice.  Alas, that doesn&#8217;t work with eRoom, since you&#8217;re not on a malformed page, but on the error page.  <\/p>\n<p>So if someone sends me a link to an eRoom page (again, this is an older version of the ap), I have to cut and paste the link into IE, since I have (like all truly sane people) FF as my default browser.  And Outlook doesn&#8217;t support a &#8220;Send To&#8221; context item for links (I wonder why &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Rrg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am used to having apps (our payroll system, our expense report system, various specialized HR apps) not working under FF.  And that&#8217;s vaguely annoying, but okay, since I still like FF enough to want to use it all the rest of the time, and on the vast majority of the sites that I visit.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the next version of ieview will let you configure a list of IE-always sites, so you can still open stuff up from inside of FF and have it open up IE automatically.  That&#8217;ll be convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to gripe.  Sorry.  Go on about your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rrg. 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