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February 28, 2007
17:41
As Bongo is predominantly a web based application, it would be nice to know what browser works without issues. So I've run a simple usability test, by connecting to my Bongo server from a variety of browsers on Linux and Windows. I'm not professing to being a usability expert like the guys over at Better Desktop, but I think it kind of proves what works and doesn't :-)

Linux:
  • Opera 9 - Fine
  • FireFox 1.5.8 - Fine
  • FireFox 2 - Fine
  • Konqueror 3.5.5 - Works with issues. Login screen not very clear, login labels scrambled, colours not what they should be, log out doesn't work
  • Epiphany 2.16.1 - Fine
  • SeaMonkey 1.1 - Fine
  • Lynx 2.8.6 - Failed no JavaScript support
  • Links 2.1 - Failed no JavaScript support

Windows:
  • Opera 9 - Fine
  • FireFox 1.5.8 - Fine
  • FireFox 2 - Fine
  • Internet Explorer 6 - Fine
  • Internet Explorer 7 - Fine, but favicon doesn't display correctly

It would be great to get results from other browsers/OSes. If anyone has OSX or any other OS could you try as many browsers as possible and just make sure that full functionality is there as there is in Linux.

UPDATE:
I've tried connecting from a couple of mobile phones without any luck, both of them have modified browsers based on Opera :-(
  • SonyEricsson M600 - Login page is garbled and reports a lot of Mochkit errors
  • SonyEricsson K800i - Fails to load the login screen with a complaint of "Page is too large, try another link" :-O
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