On Mon, 12 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:59, Andrew Ho wrote: ... > > Tim, > > 1) This is no more "grief" than having different buttons on different > > web pages. > > It is when **the same application** behaves differently with different > browsers.
Tim, No matter how different each web-browser behaves, it is no worse than running different desktop applications, each with their own unique interface and features. Going back to what Karsten said, browser features such as access keys (and XUL) allow browser-accessible applications to emulate functionalities of desktop applications. As this trend continues, web-based EMR systems will become increasingly useful. > > 2) Different desktop applications also support different hot keys > > (=access keys). > > Sure, but that is not analogous. If you re-read the Web page to which > you referred, you'll see that the same hot-key keystrokes in the same > Web application but under different browsers will result in different > actions. There are several ways to resolve this issue. We encountered the same situation with using SVG for making graphs and diagrams in the OIO system. Our solution is to recommend using Mozilla with SVG built-in. :-) ... Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
