RE: [cobalt-users] [XTR] Admin Left hand Navigation buttons gone in Mozilla Firefox

["Ligard, Vidar" <vligard@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd be extremely wary of using anything other than IE or the 
> Netscape 4 
> family of browsers with the Cobalt admin.
> 
> For whatever reasons (most likely budgetary) the admin wasn't 
> designed 
> to support "(at the time) next generation", w3c compliant 
> browsers like 
> Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror etc, and Sun never saw fit to update the 
> Admin before EOLing the product.
> 
> While altering the collapsibleList.js allowed you to see the 
> left hand 
> navigation, there may be other Javascript that doesn't work with 
> Mozilla that could cause more serious problems down the line.  (for 
> example, if there's incompatible javascript somewhere in the 
> series of 
> scripts/pages to create a new account, it could end up 
> failing half way 
> through and you'd end up with some kind of email hash conflict).

I thought the JavaScript was only used client side to maybe fill in some
default fields in a form. Once I click the "Submit" button to do
anything, the information is transmitted as POST code to the http
server, and the perl/cgi takes over from there. It's not javaScript that
actually makes any of the changes.

> 
> All that said, if you *do* decide to continue using Mozilla, keep the 
> list updated with any problems you run into :)

I sure will.
-Vidar