Safari vs Internet explorer question
We recently got a new system at work that allows us to access our scheduling information over the internet. We use to use citrix to connect to the server to retrieve the info but now we can get it via the internet. My question is, in order to get the scheduloe window to display you must use I.E. 6.0. I have tried Safari, Firefox, Netscape and others but they always get a message that says browser not supported. What could possibly be the difference or reason that one browser would work and all these others cannot display the iformation. The system that we have is made by SABRE. Any help or ideas are appreciated. Our help desk at work are a bunch of idiots.
John
It's also entirely possible that the people who built the web application did not want to bother testing the entire thing in other web browsers, without any technical reason to do so. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc. might do slightly different things for any given web page, and having worked as a developer for 5+ years in companies that build web-based applications, I can tell you with absolute certainty that "the easy way out" is to just say "this thing only works in Internet Explorer, period" and add a check that kicks out any web browser that isn't running Internet Explorer. Follow the instructions in one of the other posts to tell Safari how masquerade as Internet Explorer. I think it's possible to make a similar change to Firefox. Either one, you'll be able to trick the web server into thinking you're running IE and you'll quickly discover if the webapp actually works or not for non-IE browsers.
Kaan
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