Development-Browsers¶

Choice of web browser greatly effects the user experience. In use IE6 will be up to 10x slower in rendering pages then a modern standard compliant browser like, IE8, Firefox, Opera or Webkit. The am in development is to make the application work on any standard compliant browser with javascript enabled. The UI is build to run on a 1024x780 screen with heavy use of css and javascript to give a rich UI.

Due to this good DOM and Javascript performance are needed. We development and test on firefox with firebug. Then test on other browsers. Generally only problematic area is old broken browsers like IE6.

Benchmarks:-

• http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html
• http://code.google.com/apis/v8/run.html

Internet Explorer problems:-

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878
• http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/
• http://crashie.com
• http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/

As you may have guessed in development of biorails, many man months have been lots in working around the problems with IE6. Due to this now only support this browser as part of the enterprise version. Which includes lots of extra if IE6? fixes.