Cross 10.4/10.5/10.6 Compatibility

Hi all,
Over the past few years, we've been running xserves, upgrading some, buying new ones, etc... As a result, we have a number of servers that run 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 (all server obviously). We run everything from web, mail, SQL, xsan, qmaster, etc. Everything's always worked great EXCEPT open directory, which as always been a brutal nightmare to the point where we run standalone on all servers, and just create usernames with the same user id over the different machines we need to share, for things like Xsan. That's worked until recently where we need to implement a hardware device that needs to query a LDAP server with our user accounts, so I'm back at it.
After a few hours today cracking away at server admin and WGM, and talking with AppleCare, I'm coming to the conclusion that the main problem we're encountering is mastering and slaving across OS versions. For example... we have 2 10.4 servers, one OD master, one connected, which works great. We have 2 10.6 servers, same config, that work great. 10.4 has weird errors when connecting to a 10.5 OD master, and 10.4 just does not talk to a 10.6 OD master (at least we end up nearly always freezing the 10.4 machine to the point of reboot and quick switch to standalone).
Does anyone know the actual compatibility of open directory across OS versions?
Thanks!

Hi
+"Does anyone know the actual compatibility of open directory across OS versions?"+
I'll be surprised if anyone will know anything definitive regarding this question? Even Apple themselves possibly? Although you never know? We've seen 3 server iterations since 2006. That's only 4 years. The take up of the Intel Processor Architecture may also have had a bearing? 10.5 as a Server version was not around for long in comparison to 10.3 or 10.4. LDAP Services have been expanded a great deal since 10.3. Apart from obvious changes in the interface (new Technologies/Services heavily dependent on LDAP - greater integration for Active Directory environments) most of the changes have been under the hood.
For Open Directory my general rule of thumb is to try and make sure server and clients are all the same OS. If that's not possible and if you have 10.5 Server (as an example) you should be fine with 10.4, 10.5 clients. For 10.6 Clients expect some reduced functionality although up till now I've never had a problem.
In my own experience I have a 10.5 Server "Connected" to a 10.4 ODM. This 'combination' works well with 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 Clients and has done for over 2 years. I've not tried connectivity between 10.4 and 10.6 and I don't plan to. Mainly because I think it's too great a 'leap' and I would expect problems because of this.
My 2p.
Tony

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Browser Incompatibilities

All right. I'll admit it. I'm new to Java.
But after multiple weeks of hard work, I finally wrote The Ultimate Java Applet. At least, in my own mind. It's that pride thing again, gotta watch that. Finally had all the bugs ironed out, and it worked beautifully. I prepared to bask in the glory as I put it proudly up on my web site.
Then, the trouble reports started flooding in. Everybody using the same platform I was had it work fine. But it seemed like everybody using Netscape, or using Macintosh, or using Linux had some sort of problem.
It's all little stuff, as far as I can tell. Keyboard character mapping on Macintosh (may have fixed this one, may not have). Netscape 4.74 doesn't like the WindowListener interface, and throws an exception when the applet first tries to load because it's not found (no idea on this one). Netscape doesn't trigger the keyTyped event for the [Enter] key, while MSIE does (fixed this one). Mozilla doesn't like the copyArea method (takes like 0.2 seconds to move a 600 by 400 pixel area on a Pentium III 800 -- fixed that by putting in a checkbox). Like I said, all little stuff.
Basically, I have several questions to pose in general.
1. Are my experiences normal? I wrote this using Sun's SDK documentation from their web site, using no development tools besides javac and a text editor. It seems strange that a language that is supposedly so cross-platform would have so incredibly many compatibility problems. How do 'real' Java developers do it? A method that works for Java 1.1 fails under Java 1.3 -- but the method that works in 1.3 doesn't work in 1.1. How can you have an applet that supports both? Or do you just have to accept, with Java, that your code won't work on all browsers and go from there?
2. Where can you find information on compatibility between browsers? It'd be nice to know before coding it and testing it that method 'x' is broken on Netscape.
3. How can you test with enough browsers? So far it's been hit-or-miss, waiting for my users to report things and then trying to diagnose with them, a tedious and time-consuming process.
4. I keep hearing about how Netscape is 'more compatible' than IE... yet my code seems to work beautifully under IE with a Sun compiler -- yet just about every version of Netscape I've tested so far has had some issue.
I'm not trying to complain. It's just that I see a lot of really good Java code out there that works on everything, and I wonder, how do they do it? So please, share your secrets with me! I'd love to hear them. :)
The applet is on the Shadowrun Denver connect page at http://aelfhame.net/~denver/connect.php3 . It's a Java-based client for an online game called a MUSH. I run it for free for my users (players), but it's something I'd love to put into general distribution if I can.
Things I could use help with, if there are kind souls out there:
1. How can I fix the copyArea problem under Mozilla for WIndows? The workaround I have works okay, but it's a kludge, and nobody likes kludges. Basically, copyArea is used to scroll the display area up by one line's worth of distance each time a new line is printed at the bottom. On most browsers, this is significantly faster (by a factor of 5 or so) than rendering the text one line at a time, as is done without the 'Optimized Scrolling' checkbox enabled.
2. How can I fix the following exception on Netscape 4.74 for Macintosh:
# Applet exception: class ClientApplet not found
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java/awt/event/WindowListener
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass1(Compiled Code)
* at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame.run(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)
3. Is the Macintosh IE key-mapping problem fixed? This causes the previous line of text to be displayed randomly when you try to type in the InBox area.
4. Does anyone have any advice for web sites to visit to locate browser-based problems with Java? i.e. this is broken in IE 4.0, this is broken in Netscape 4.74, etc.?
I'll be happy to share snippets of source code upon request, but posting it here is not feasible, since it's 40K or so in size for all classes. The copyArea function is this:
public void scrollUp () {
TLine tl = (TLine) Visible.elementAt (0);
TLine tl2 = (TLine) Visible.elementAt (1);
TLine tl9 = (TLine) Visible.elementAt (windowsize-2);
Dimension ls = new Dimension (tl.getPreferredSize ());
Graphics g = getGraphics ();
if (g == null)
return;
Dimension d1 = tl.getLoc ();
Dimension d2 = tl2.getLoc ();
Dimension d9 = tl9.getLoc ();
screen_graphics.copyArea (0,d2.height,ls.width,d9.height +
tl9.realHeight (),0,d1.height - d2.height);
g.drawImage (screenbuffer,0,0,null);
Thanks in advance. I appreciate any help anybody can provide. I've been doing programming for roughly 15 years in languages ranging from Pascal and C++ to Java, PHP, and Perl.
Joel Ricketts, MCSE
Systems Engineer

Hiya,
A quick response for you: if you want to avoid all
ll these browser incompatibilities, make sure your
users use the latest Java Plugin. There is a whole
section on javasoft.com dedicated to converting your
<applet> code to code which is compatible with the
plugin.
Anyway, by forcing your users to use the plugin you
ou are pretty much guaranteed consistent behavior
across all browsers since the browser isn't doing any
of the work; the plugin passes the applet to a JRE in
the background whereas in the past the browser would
handle it itself.How would you suggest doing this? i.e. forcing Internet visitors to the page to have the latest plugin? Mostly, it seems to be incompatibilities in different platforms (Mac, Linux), or in browsers (Netscape vs. IE), not necessarily in different versions, per se.
I guess I'm a little confused on how this would work not so much in an implementation sense (i.e. what code to write), but instead in a sense of what the 'flow' would be, so to speak. i.e. an overview of how it'd work. If you could give me a good link to some info that would brief me on it, it would be great ... along with maybe something to help me develop an understanding of how this would help? The problem certainly acts like bugs in the java classes provided by the individual browsers -- does 'forcing' them to have a certain version correct this? I'm also a little confused by the concept of 'plugins', here -- which is mostly a Netscape term, I know. Does the plugin replace the native Java support within the browser? That seems to be what you're saying. But it should fix at least Netscape issues, hopefully. I just want to avoid any pitfalls introduced by making things incompatible, and make it stop working on those platforms on which it does currently work. Thanks!

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Before you finish considering upgrading your OS, do a check on your existing programs because many of them (in particular those that are PPC) will not work on the newer, higher OSs.
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Not addressed in product specs:
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Does it use HTML5 features?
How does it handle audio and video?
Can it generate a 'functioning' contact form?

Muse handles output for most desktop browsers well.
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Muse does not import audio or video files unless you paste code into this 'codeless' design tool.
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What about cross browser compatibility?

HI
I was searching cross browser and platform compatibility
matrix.
Can any one give me info on this or point me a link?
Thank You,
Suketu Vyas
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Macromedia Certified professional
http://www.suketuvyas.com

Hi Suketu,
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We have been testing on the latest browsers on both
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ii. it's basically to hard to promise this.
iii. I didn't look hard enough.
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Sorry to waist everyone's time with a basic question, but hopefully someone can give me a straight answer. I searched around the user group but couldn't find what I was looking for.
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Sorry for the long winded question, and thank you for any information.
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Hey everything thanks for taking the time to read this!
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... ?

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I am an advanced beginner website designer.
The website I need help with is www.sprungtheatre.com
I designed this site on a PC machine. Each page has a
different CSS Background Image rule. The only rule I have set is
image and the "non-repeat." I have not set rules for its placement.
Each of these images had a feather effect applied to it in
Illustrator so the image would fade into the black background. This
works fine on Windows machines in IE and Firefox.
However, on Macs, the left-hand side of the image is chopped
off. Which is to say, it appears if the feathered edge has been cut
off and the image ends abruptly.
Is there any way to fix this problem?
My only guess is that the following my be happening:
The CSS Background Image rule is applied to a nested table
that is editable in a template. I'm thinking that the Mac browswers
are moving the image to the upper left of the overall, "poppa"
table in which the editable region is nested, cutting off that part
of the image that appears in the non-editable region of the "poppa"
table and showing that part of it that appears in the nested,
editable table. I hope that makes sense. Would applying the
placement rules help this? If not, what might?
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Don't use a fixed background image.
Sorry to break the news but the code is hidous for an
advanced beginner.
Youre sure to run into much trouble unless you are preapred
to take
some time out and learn this stuff correctly.
Using layout mode and spliting and merging tables into all
sorts of
shapes is a seriously bad method and one you should quickly
move away
from for the sake of your own sanity.
zaphron wrote:
> I am an advanced beginner website designer.
>
> The website I need help with is www.sprungtheatre.com
>
> I designed this site on a PC machine. Each page has a
different CSS Background
> Image rule. The only rule I have set is image and the
"non-repeat." I have not
> set rules for its placement.
>
> Each of these images had a feather effect applied to it
in Illustrator so the
> image would fade into the black background. This works
fine on Windows machines
> in IE and Firefox.
>
> However, on Macs, the left-hand side of the image is
chopped off. Which is to
> say, it appears if the feathered edge has been cut off
and the image ends
> abruptly.
>
> Is there any way to fix this problem?
>
> My only guess is that the following my be happening:
>
> The CSS Background Image rule is applied to a nested
table that is editable in
> a template. I'm thinking that the Mac browswers are
moving the image to the
> upper left of the overall, "poppa" table in which the
editable region is
> nested, cutting off that part of the image that appears
in the non-editable
> region of the "poppa" table and showing that part of it
that appears in the
> nested, editable table. I hope that makes sense. Would
applying the placement
> rules help this? If not, what might?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
>

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