[Zenoss-dev] javascript cross-platform compatibility

[Eric Newton]

jimsmart wrote:
> i don't know if you are already aware of the problems with trying to run Zenoss on Mac web browsers? 

There is this great browser for the mac called firefox... it rocks!

> Mac Safari 3.0.4: crashed/quit when trying to access both the device list and the event console.

Crashed?  That's not good.  And by "not good" I mean for Safari.

> Mac Opera 9.2.5: the dashboard, device list and event console were not functioning (but they didn't cause a crash).

There's definitely some fancy JS going on in those lists to achieve the
scalability needed to get to 10K devices.

> does anyone know: is this caused by bad code in third-party js library? or, is this caused by bad code in a Zope component? (maybe we can use a later version of said library, or file a bug upstream?) -- or, is this something specific to Zenoss's js code?

It remains to be seen who has the bad code... it is probably some minor
difference of opinion between the implementors of the browsers'
javascript engines/libraries and the Zenoss UI.

Firefox is widely available and has Firebug, IE has market share.
Patches are cheerfully accepted for other browsers.  If you are aware of
 some fundamental error we are making for these browsers, please make a
bug report on dev.zenoss.org.

-Eric