Few years ago, we had very few variations in the browsers. After the Google chrome, the browser market became very agile. Now, Firefox is releasing a major version every few months.
In our team, we have two products, let's call it A and B.
A is developed with HTML, Javascript, CSS and with few additional third party components for Menus and Trees.
B is developed with the RIA framework qooxdoo. As the qooxdoo framework provides quite a lot of widgets, B does not use any other third party components for Menus and Trees.
Recently, the verification of the products are in progress.
A has lot of issues with the different browsers. To say a few.
1- The third party components does not work with IE9 and Chrome 16.
2- We have coded in HTML and javascript to retain the fixed header for the tables. That worked well in IE7.0 and Firefox 3.x. From Firefox4 onwards, Firefox removed the support of a variable. Fixed header code broke in Firefox 4.x onwards. We tested in Firefox 9.0, the code didn't work in that version too. We had to fix it separately for Firefox 3.x and Firefox 4.x onwards.
let's see how B performs.
1- As there are no third party components, B worked fairly well in IE9, Firefox 9.0, and Chrome.
2- qooxdoo provides the table widget with sortable columns. This works well in most of the browsers.
So, with the agile competition between the browsers, it is advisable to migrate your web application to a Rich Internet application using a good framework such as qooxdoo.
Now, there is a beginner's guide on qooxdoo to jumpstart your development on Qooxdoo.
http://www.packtpub.com/qooxdoo-for-rich-internet-applications-beginners-guide/book
In our team, we have two products, let's call it A and B.
A is developed with HTML, Javascript, CSS and with few additional third party components for Menus and Trees.
B is developed with the RIA framework qooxdoo. As the qooxdoo framework provides quite a lot of widgets, B does not use any other third party components for Menus and Trees.
Recently, the verification of the products are in progress.
A has lot of issues with the different browsers. To say a few.
1- The third party components does not work with IE9 and Chrome 16.
2- We have coded in HTML and javascript to retain the fixed header for the tables. That worked well in IE7.0 and Firefox 3.x. From Firefox4 onwards, Firefox removed the support of a variable. Fixed header code broke in Firefox 4.x onwards. We tested in Firefox 9.0, the code didn't work in that version too. We had to fix it separately for Firefox 3.x and Firefox 4.x onwards.
let's see how B performs.
1- As there are no third party components, B worked fairly well in IE9, Firefox 9.0, and Chrome.
2- qooxdoo provides the table widget with sortable columns. This works well in most of the browsers.
So, with the agile competition between the browsers, it is advisable to migrate your web application to a Rich Internet application using a good framework such as qooxdoo.
Now, there is a beginner's guide on qooxdoo to jumpstart your development on Qooxdoo.
http://www.packtpub.com/qooxdoo-for-rich-internet-applications-beginners-guide/book
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