Rather than becoming
bogged down in the quagmire of trying to support every browser in the
known universe, we elected to support a single browser, which in turn
means that we are free to fully leverage all of the extensions available
for client side processing.
As the primary
target market for Viságe is the intranet this is a reasonable, and
indeed desirable, requirement.
Viságe.Designer
only supports Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, but as IE is used by over
85% of all Internet users, and can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft
Web site, it means that applications developed with Viságe can be
deployed to reach a very wide audience on the Internet.
It is unlikely
that the Viságe.Designer will support other browser environments as we
take advantage of the fact that we are running IE6.0 and Viságe
applications are deployed as Hyper Text Applications, or HTA's.
However, it is
important to know that you can use the Viságe middleware to communicate
with any HTTP client, so that Web pages designed and developed with
other tools, and possibly even being browser neutral, can be used to
interact with your multi-valued database environment.
If there is
sufficient demand a specialized extension to the Viságe.ADF may be
developed to support the browser found in PDA's such as the Compaq Ipaq.