Browsinform TipsThis page contains a list of tips that were either submitted by other
Browsinform users, or that stem out of questions posed by users to our Technical
Support.
We periodically update the documentation and move items from this
page to the documentation. Please check the Online
Documentation or re-download the entire package.
If you'd like to contribute a useful tip, please send us an email at browsinform@mandosoft.com.
Note: most of the writeup here use Windows command as
examples because it's a fact of life, there are more Windows users than anything
else. In most cases, you can translate the commands into their equivalents in
Unix or Mac
- Support for non-latin
alphabets
- If your CSV file contains non-latin characters, the display will be garbled
unless you add the line <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
to your <HEAD> section in the HTML file that invokes the applet. It
works in MSIE. In Netscape I can't seem to make it work, other than setting the
character set in the browser itself (in the browser menu, select View ->
Encoding).
Obviously this topic could use a bit more work... If you are
an expert on this topic, please drop us a line and we'll improve this
explanation
- Popup
windows
- When the applet starts 2 popup windows appear on your screen: A status
screen that indicates that the applet is reading the datafile. If everything
goes well, the window disappears after a couple of seconds. It serves a dual
purpose:
- While the file is being read it keeps the user informed of what's hapenning;
for very large datafiles and slow connections, the download time can be
significant and it is important to let the user know that the applet is not
frozen. Given the notorious unreliability of internet connections, it is nice to
provide the user with as much feedback as possible.
- If there is an error reading the datafile, it indicates the cause of the
error, which your users can send you to notify you of the problem.
- Mac
Problems
- There have been reports of problems using Browsinform on some Macs,
seemingly due to Java Virtual Machine or JavaScript Interpreter
incompatibilities. These problems are not always present but when they are, they
manifest themselves by the applet being reloaded when you do a search. At this
point, we are unable to resolve the issue, but we'll try to get to it in as soon
as we can. However if you have any information that could help us solve the
problem, we'd be very glad to hear from you.
- Netscape 6
- How can we say this gracefully... We can't: Netscape 6 sucks (for some
entertaining comments, scan the newsgroups !). It's slow, buggy and has big
problems with Java and JavaScript. Version 6.0 and 6.1 just plain don't work.
Version 6.2 is better but it is still slow.
- Can't find the
datafile
- There are added explanations in the FAQ
page.
- How to install
the Distribution Files
- There are added explanations in the Installation page.
- Getting
Started
- There are added explanations on how to get started in the Applet Invocation and Getting Started Example.
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