Hi Richard, Thanks for the response, I didn't realise there was ActiveX used as we disabled those features in our setup.
I think my personal feeling is that OpenText are slow to keep up with the latest developments in technology, I know they are trying to make things better now but they have a hell of a lot of catching up to do. As our team are moving more over towards Macs as our development, as it is a better platform for us for the non CMS development work we do it is frustrating to have to boot a VM just to edit some settings in the CMS. Especially when we work hard to make sure all our custom built applications work across all platforms. The poor communication from OpenText about this issue hasn't helped either, with them saying IE9 support is coming in a particular update and then it not materialising with no explanation. Regards, Craig On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:44:39 UTC+1, Richard Hauer (5 Limes) wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > > > There are certainly elements of SmartEdit that utilise ActiveX components > including the Word editor integration, inline editing and drag and drop > functions. Remember that this interface was built when IE6 was the browser > king with over 90% utilisation. It also delivered a number of JavaScript > enhancements over rival browsers of the day (hence its popularity at the > time) but, as there were few properly established standards, Microsoft took > a number of liberties in attempting to influence the overall direction of > JavaScript; many of these did not stick. > > > > SmartTree uses JavaScript that works in IE8 because of its legacy support > for the not very modern JavaScript constructs used heavily by RedDot, but > as Microsoft succumbed to industry pressure to drop support for > vendor-specific ‘enhancements’ in favour of supporting ECMA > standards-compliant behaviour in IE9 much of the UI because a bit broken. > > > > I think OT have found it difficult to justify the cost that a ground-up > rebuild of the SmartEdit and SmartTree UI would involve as IE8 is still > very widely adopted and supported, but as time goes on this is less and > less the case. > > > > V11 presents a ground-up rebuild of the back-end technology stack for the > ‘RedDot’ products and I think it’s reasonable that the front-end will > receive similar treatment in the not too distant future (I have it on good > authority actually). > > > > Note that under MS policy, once IE10 is released support for IE7 will be > stopped and IE8 becomes end-of-life, making it inevitable that > organisations upgrade their browsers. It’s impossible that OT don’t update > their browser support at that time or they face the likelihood of being > impossible to implement. > > > > Rgds, > > Richard. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Craig Plummer > *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 April 2012 9:11 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Red Dot Management Server and IE9 incompatibility > > > > I think it was just poorly coded in the first place, I don't think there > is anything that would require IE for it to work. I don't think it makes > use of Active X as I have never been asked to install any components. It > just wasn't written in a standards compliant way, which is likely why it > doesn't work in IE9 unless you turn on compatibility mode. > > It gets asked in almost every webinar when it will work with other > browsers, but an excuse is always made. I think the latest was they would > rewrite it to work in all browsers after IE10 is released, but considering > that IE9 has been out a year and was in beta for about 6 months before that > and OpenText still don't fully support it I think it is unlikely it will > ever change. > > Craig > > On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:19:47 UTC+1, Tony Chung wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Ibrahim Sawadogo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The best browser for reddot is ie8. > > > > I find it curious that the reddot/OpenText CMS deliberately limits the > compatibility of the administration interface to such antiquated > browsers. I don't see how much of a part ActiveX plays in Smart Tree, > for example, or whether those features would be missed if they were > replaced by something coded in pure JavaScript. > > -Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RedDot CMS Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reddot-cms-users/-/sqdt7cHTQSEJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reddot-cms-users/-/n1mYjREbVM8J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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