| Tested 8/15/06 | IE (os9 & X) read test results |
FIREFOX (osX) read test results |
OPERA 6 (os9) read test results |
OPERA 9 (osX) read test results |
SAFARI (osX) read test results |
| Save/Navigate | EXCELLENT | GOOD | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT | GOOD |
| Java Warnings | GOOD | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT |
| Navigation Bar | POOR | EXCELLENT | POOR | EXCELLENT | GOOD |
| General Printing | GOOD | EXCELLENT | POOR | GOOD | GOOD* |
| Print Entire IEP | GOOD | EXCELLENT | NA | EXCELLENT | NA |
| ER (select all) | POOR | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT | EXCELLENT | POOR |
| DesignMode | POOR | EXCELLENT | POOR | GOOD | POOR |
MOZILLA (os9 & X) and NETSCAPE (os9 & X) were also tested. Their results were identical to FIREFOX.
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| MICROSOFT IE | versions tested | osX - 5.2.2 | os9 - 5.1.7 | back to top |
| Save/Navigate | IE has no trouble saving data and navigation seems to work smoothly. |
| Java Warnings | All JavaScript Warnings work as expected. |
| Navigation Bar | The navigation bar does not float as you scroll down but stays at the top of the page. |
| General Printing | Cannot set margins and tables sometimes get chopped off on the right side (workaround: select "Print Preview" and make the text smaller). |
| Print Entire IEP | Pages do not break correctly when one particular page runs over into two or more pages while printing the entire IEP. |
| ER (select all) | The whole text box is highlighted when using "select all" which makes it impossible to find blocks of text. |
| DesignMode | DesignMode is not supported with this version. |
| FIREFOX | versions tested | osX - 2.0 | os9 - not supported | back to top |
| Save/Navigate | Firefox has no trouble saving data and while navigation seems to work smoothly. Text boxes are wider than in other browsers. |
| Java Warnings | All JavaScript Warnings work as expected. |
| Navigation Bar | The navigation bar floats with you as you scroll through the page. |
| General Printing | Margins can be set through (print) Page Setup -> Paper Size -> Manage Custom Sizes. Tables look good when printed. |
| Print Entire IEP | Pages break in the right places and print as expected when printing the entire IEP. |
| ER (select all) | Highlighted text is displayed correctly when using "select all" in scrolling textboxes. |
| DesignMode | All features of DesignMode work as expected. |
| OPERA 6 | version tested | os9 - 6.0.3 not recommended because of printing issues | back to top |
| Save/Navigate | Opera has no trouble saving data and navigation seems to work smoothly. Display ADS are shown at the top of the free version. |
| Java Warnings | All JavaScript Warnings work as expected. |
| Navigation Bar | The navigation bar floats as long as Opera and Mozilla are chosen as the identity but it is very slow and troublesome. |
| General Printing | In version 6 for OS9 the margins are huge (more than an inch) and there is no way to get rid of Header & Footer info. |
| Print Entire IEP | This feature was basically troublesome and did not work well at all. |
| ER (select all) | Highlighted text is displayed correctly when using "select all" in scrolling textboxes. |
| DesignMode | DesignMode is not supported with this version. |
| OPERA 9 | version tested | osX - 9.00 | os9 - not supported | back to top |
| Save/Navigate | Opera has no trouble saving data and navigation seems to work smoothly. |
| Java Warnings | All JavaScript Warnings work as expected. |
| Navigation Bar | The navigation bar floats as long as Opera and Mozilla are chosen as the identity. When IE is chosen as the identity the bar does not float. |
| General Printing | Cannot set margins but tables look good when printed. |
| Print Entire IEP | Pages break in the right places and print as expected when printing the entire IEP. |
| ER (select all) | Highlighted text is displayed correctly when using "select all" in scrolling textboxes. |
| DesignMode | Most features of DesignMode work as expected (tables cannot be inserted). |
| SAFARI | versions tested | osX - 1.0.3 | os9 - not supported | back to top |
| Save/Navigate | Safari has no trouble saving data and navigation seems to work smoothly but images would fail to be loaded on occasion. |
| Java Warnings | All JavaScript Warnings work as expected. |
| Navigation Bar | The navigation bar floats with you as you scroll through the page (it is rather slow though). |
| General Printing | Cannot set margins and pages are shrunk to fit. Margins are so big that the text on the printed page becomes difficult to read. *Newer versions, reportedly, have better printing results. |
| Print Entire IEP | Printing the entire IEP is not an option because the pagebreak feature is not supported in any known version of Safari. |
| ER (select all) | The whole text box is highlighted when using "select all" which makes it impossible to find blocks of text. |
| DesignMode | DesignMode is not supported with this version. |