I've been working with a customer that has a very mixed client environment, to help achieve a common user experience in MOSS across all the various browsers in their environment (mostly IE 5-8, FireFox and Safari). One of the ways we can move towards accomplishing this is to disable client integration, but regretfully this disables many of the features that make MOSS a great collaboration platform.
The list below is a work in progress, I'm looking to identify fixes or addon offerings (such as Telerik's RadControls for MOSS http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/sharepoint.aspx) that can provide the desired functionality in a cross-browser environment. There's also a codeplex project specifically for FireFox support at http://wssfirefox.codeplex.com/ but this won't meet my requirement for a common experience across ALL browsers.
I'd appreciate any comments/feedback.
| Feature |
Possible Solution |
| Date picker control |
telerik |
| Microsoft Office Visio 2007 diagram creation |
is this a desired feature |
| Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 integration |
manually open/edit infopath forms |
| Single sign-on |
none identified |
| Presence information |
none identified |
| Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 integration |
none identified |
| Web discussions |
deprecated feature |
| Spreadsheet and Database integration |
none identified |
| Slide library and Office PowerPoint 2007 integration |
none identified |
| Rich Text Editor field |
telerik |
| Datasheet view |
telerik |
| File upload and copy |
telerik |
| Edit in Datasheet view |
telerik |
| Edit In (Microsoft Office application) |
none identified |
| Explorer view |
telerik |
| List attachments |
testing a possible solution |
| Multiple file upload |
telerik |
| New Document |
use upload instead |
| Part to Part Connections |
none identified |
| People Picker |
works but doesn't resolve domain\username |
| Rich text Toolbar |
telerik |
| Send To |
works within the farm |
| Date Picker Control |
telerik |
| Slide Library |
none identified |
| Excel Web Access |
not compatible with Safari, no identified fix |
| Open in Excel |
none identified |
| Open Snapshot |
none identified |
| Sorting and Filtering (Excel Services) |
telerik datagrid as an alternative |
| Signing forms (Forms Server) |
can view but cannot sign |
| Rich Text (InfoPath) |
none identified (explore if telerik control can be used) |
| Rich text editing in Forms Server forms |
none identified (explore if telerik control can be used) |
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