Comments on: Multi-browser support of Exact Synergy Enterprise

By: Christian V

Christian V — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:23:55 +0000

Hi,
I think it´s a great improvement to offer multiborwser function.
I´ve just tested ESE 243 in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, and I was able to navigate through workflow and perform search, but when I wanted to create or edit a document, I would only get the One Moment Please screen.
Just need a few adjusmentss I guess.

Keep it up!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:25:32 +0000

Hi Frank,

We’re currently focusing on these few ‘popular’ browsers, with their respective rendering engines in parentheses:
1) IE (Trident)
2) Firefox (Gecko)
3) Chrome/ Safari (WebKit)

Linux users have a gamut of browsers to choose from, so the general rule is, if the browser is based on one of the rendering engines above, chances are it’ll work. The 3 engines above cover most popular browsers for Linux, with the exception of Konqueror.

Having said that, our main focus is currently multiple browser support on Windows, but we will also look at other platforms.

By: Frank Voncken

Frank Voncken — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:53:53 +0000

That would be great! At home I like to have access to Exact Synergy to do a job at home. However, in Linux (Ubuntu) there is no Microsoft IE. Hence, multi-browser support is more than welcome! Or do I make a mistake? Is the multi-browser support not suitable for browsers within Linux?

By: Ronald Voets

Ronald Voets — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:53:43 +0000

Hi Marc,

This is not planned.

Ronald

By: marc gobes

marc gobes — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:52:16 +0000

Sorry, I mean offcourse Synergy Classic.

By: marc gobes

marc gobes — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:50:40 +0000

Exact, is there any development planned for browser compatibility and Enterprise Classic ?

By: ronals voets

ronals voets — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:08 +0000

@Exact user that’s exactly what we’re working on: make Synergy Enterprise suitable for users with browsers other then IE. Wé’ve delivered parts in 242, parts in 243 and will continue to change other areas in Synergy Enterprise over the course of 2010.

What hurdles we had to overcome? It’s mainly the fact that Synergy Enterprise has been developed on the Microsoft technology stack and only had to support IE, So over the past years several functions have been built in that happen to be not supported in other browsers. Think i.e. VB scripts,

By: Exact User

Exact User — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:31 +0000

Does this mean that the current issues with other browsers will be eliminated? I use Chrome but it’s not very user friendly at the moment for Synergy Classic or Enterprise and therefore use IE for Synergy.

Are you able to indicate the type of hurdles that had to be overcome to make the other browsers compatable?

By: Robert Klein

Robert Klein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:47:38 +0000

I was at a prospect yesterday & noticed half of the users, use Chrome, the other IE. I cannot wait, I have been personally using Firefox w IE Tab & planning to use Chrome.

By: Christian Ibetsberger

Christian Ibetsberger — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:21:19 +0000

Multi-browser support will certainly be a real advantage, not only in the office. With all that different browsers/operating systems on smartphones customers will have more choices if they want to use Synergy mobile.