Postby florian » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:07 am
Well, I think the Chrome debate on the political side will go on for a while; the German Interior Ministry's department for Information Systems Security has put out a warning against using Chrome at this time, both because of possible security flaws with such new technology, but also based on the privacy concerns around Google's built-in data collection technology.
We've been carefully looking into Webkit for a while, mostly on the grounds of planning Safari support, and if we decide to do it, it would be designed and tested in such a way that Chrome would be included. No dates for it, but rest assured it will be timely for our customer's needs. I don't see anyone seriously wanting to use it at this point for their production systems.
Just to comment on a couple of general misconceptions in this thread. First, unless it's really a superset of behaviours like IE8 over IE7, there is simply no way that a complex web app like Scalix Web Access could ever work with a new browser, out of the box; the way we use JavaScript and AJAX is way to deep for that to happen. Second, on Webkit, the actual implementations based on Webkit for Konqueror, Safari an Chrome are quite different on the side of what's most relevant to us, JavaScript support. Chrome has rewritten the whole engine, btw., so while there are similarities, supporting one would not give us the other - we've already looked into Safari as I said, and Safari support would not automatically enable Konqueror to work as there are serious differences. Third, IceWeasel, which has been mentioned in this thread, is not based on Webkit, but on Gecko, i.e. the Mozilla engine. It actually does use the unmodified Gecko, so it will work with Scalix Web Access and since 11.3, the hack is no longer necessary. As we don't specifically test it, it will still pop-up a warning, but it works with SWA without any known problems or issues, so in this case it's simply not supported, yet works. Webkit-browsers at this point do not work, same as Opera, and all of them require quite substantial code modifications on our side to change this.
Florian.
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