Does anyone have Forms & Reports 10G working properly on Macs?!

Question

In our work enviroment we have about a third of our company working on Macs - currently we have client server forms and reports 6 running on a citrix server for the Mac users. I am in the process of upgrading our systems to 10G (10.1.2) in the hope of being able to get rid of the citrix servers and have everyone running straight through a browser. However looking at the supported versions:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/as_certification_r2_101202.html#BABDECDG
it seems that only Safari 1.2 is supported on Macs. Now I find it very difficult to believe that many/any working enviroments are running Safari 1.2 as it is updated via security updates OS updates etc and they are currently upto 2.0.3. As a result within our company Firefox is the browser we use as we have direct control over updates. Testing through firefox 1.5 is giving me font issues and you cannot click into a specific record on a multi-row block, having problems trying to get reports running, logging on etc. I would like to know whether anyone is running forms and reports 10G on Macs in a production enviroment and what browser / java versions are used and does everything work as it should. Thankyou

Answer 1

Hi, perhaps I haven't been clear enough yet I'm getting the same errors that I have listed twice thus far on safari! - and here is why we don't use safari
"As the standard Mac desktop here is set up as a Windows peer in what is technically a "Windows-only" environment, we get some issues where some parts of OS X doesn't play nice with the infrastructure. The way our build is tailored, most of our users don't see the integration "joins" and their Macs operate as they'd expect, which is how we like it too.
That doesn't mean we don't get occasional problems with OS updates and our infrastructure. For example... Apple will often put a bunch of security patches, application fixes and system revisions into their Software Updates.
On a standalone system, or "vanilla" networked Macs, this is great, as you get a bunch of timely updates in one easy-to-install bundle. Unfortunately, our Mac OS X build is NOT a standard one and some parts of Apple's updates can cause us problems.
Safari, while being the best browser experience on the Macintosh for most people, suffers a lot from our environment's strictures. You may know that Safari was already drawing heat from end users over its apparent lack of support for some websites (particularly personal banking), so the switch to Firefox was happening anyway. We pushed it on once we got hit with the most recent problems with Safari and proxy authentication. When we stripped away our general blind fanaticism for Apple-made software, we realised that the Volvo alternative (Firefox) was actually a more solid performer.
Finally, as the browser is a pretty important piece of software for us (aside from browsing it's a method of deploying apps), we think it makes good sense to decouple it from the OS. With Safari we don't have the same control over versioning as we do with Firefox, while Firefox has most of the Safari features that our 10.3 userbase can access."
So can anyone help with the specific errors I listed above thanks.