WebFacing support for multiple browsers

WebFacing projects can be run in the Microsoft® Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. This reference document describes the differences between the presentation of WebFacing pages in Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

Currently supported browsers

For the list of supported releases of the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers, refer to the HATS prerequisites section of the HATS Information Center.

Attention: Unless client customizations are explicitly coded for multiple browser support, they might not work in Firefox. Avoid using functions only supported by a particular browser in your customizations; for example, using document.all() (an Internet Explorer function) in a customization would cause the application to fail when running it in a Firefox browser. To write cross browser code, the information at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ie2mozgd/ might be helpful to you.

An unsupported browser is one with which the product has not been tested. When you use an unsupported browser, you receive error message WF0095. If you want your WebFacing application to run in the unsupported browser without having the error message issued, set the web.xml variable WFIgnoreBrowserTypeCheck to true. However, this should only be used for development and testing of projects. Running the project in an unsupported browser in production is not recommended.

Differences in WebFacing behavior when running in Internet Explorer and Firefox

Different browsers can vary in how they present Web pages, affecting both behavior and rendering. The following list shows some differences in how WebFacing applications behave and are presented in Internet Explorer and Firefox.