Bug #2669
closedMapbuilder incompatible w/ Safari, Opera
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Description
Mapbuilder, our current web mapping client, uses the browser to do XSLT transforms on the client side. A number of browsers do not allow XSLT to be accessed from javascript, most notably Safari, Opera and Konqueror.
See http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor21
This is a fundamental problem and the mapbuilder developers have stated that they have no plans to support browsers without javascript XSLT.
We have two options to remedy this:
- Switch to a different web mapping client
- Detect the browser and alert the user when their browser is not compatible (and don't display the broken map of course).
Updated by Matthew Perry over 17 years ago
Added a javascript detection mechanism to the mapbuilder load sequence to detect the browser and redirect the user to an error page if their browser is not compatible.