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This is an old revision of WikkaAndBrowsers made by JavaWoman on 2005-04-26 10:52:21.
Wikka and some Browser Incompatibilities
While generally Wikka works fine across browsers, gradually a few incompatibilites are becoming known. This page serves to gather what we know about such incompatibilities so we can look at possibly solving the problems or creating a workaround.
The items are organized by browser (type) with platform as a subheading (though the latter is redundant if a browser is platform-specific). Please keep this organization, and add version info if a problem is known to be version-specific.
Opera
Windows
- Opera (7.2x) implements the standard ECMAscript instead of JavaScript. In many cases the difference is minimal, but in Wikka the WikiEdit toolbar does not appear (at all) in Opera. Possible solution: rewrite the WikiEdit toolbar JavaScript so it is more cross-browser compatible.
Safari
Mac OS-X
- When Safari is used to edit a page that contains UTF-8 characters, the result may look OK in Safari but is "character soup" in any other browser that supports Unicode. It seems Safari's support for UTF-8 is non-standard. No solution known.
- Using the WikiEdit toolbar crashes Safari. While Safari shouldn't crash when encountering JavaScript it cannot handle, more cross-browser JavaScript might help, too. Possible solution: rewrite the WikiEdit toolbar JavaScript so it is more cross-browser compatible.
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