On May 3, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 05/03/2010 09:38 AM, Denis Gervalle wrote: >> "The WYSIWYG editor is currently supported in Firefox 2.x and 3.x as well as >> Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x and 8.x." >> >> Is there plans to extends support to other major browser, especially those >> that are Webkit based, like Safari or Chrome ? >> Do we know what are the issues or critical point that makes this limitation >> ? > > It's hard to make an editor work in all browsers, since it uses the > browser's native support for editable content, which was (until HTML5) > completely unspecified, non-standard, non-equivalent in any random pair > of browsers (most times even two versions of the same browser). Marius > is working on this when he finds some free time, but it would be great > if users would contribute some patches, too. > > Still, except the WYSIWYG which mostly works in all browsers, we have > full support for almost all browsers, from links and lynx to Chrome > passing through Konqueror and Safari, Firefox, IE (and variants), Opera. > I haven't tested, but probably works in Galleon, too. It looks pretty > much OK in mobile browsers as well, though we need to optimize the skin > for small screens.
Maybe it's worth mentioning this in the pre-requisite section on http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation#HPrerequisites ? Thanks -Vincent >> Denis >> >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 08:33, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On May 3, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: >>> >>>> I was just wondering what browsers do we support? Is this written down >>> somewhere? >>>> I assume we do not support browsers with script turned off since menus >>> and the admin app require script. > > It's supposed to work without scripts, too. The menus need to be fixed, > Flavius had a working prototype but didn't get to finish it yet. What > doesn't work in the Admin app? > > So, ideally XWiki should work reasonably well in the following situations: > - without Javascript > - without stylesheets > - without images > - in a text browser > - in a screen reader (not so good at the moment) > > Note that we're somewhat committed to be WCAG AA compliant, and we could > also be ATAG compliant soon (almost there). We still need to improve our > ARIA practices. > >>>> Are there multiple levels of support? For example: more browsers >>> supported for guests viewing than >>>> administrators or some browsers must have all functionality but can have >>> ugly UI? >>> >>> The list of supported browsers is listed in the WYSIWYG page but I agree we >>> should have it as a global requirements so I've copied it from >>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/WysiwygEditor to >>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation >>> >>> We should share the list between both locations, maybe with an anchor and a >>> link from the wysiwyg page to the requirement section? _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
