Webdialog vs browser

Pout · 26 Feb 2010, 13:04

If I understand correct, when using webdialogs on PC, Internet Explorer is used.
When using webdialogs on Mac, safari is used.

What happens if the user does not have IE or safari installed but Chrome or Firefox?
Is the webdialog handled by Chrome or FF then?

This means the webdialog javascript has to be cross-browser valid (not only IE and safari).
Correct?

tbd · 26 Feb 2010, 13:46

on Windows you are using Trident (or mshtml.dll) and not IE to be more precise. and every windows has it by default.

on Mac it is Webkit (used by Safari and Chrome) that also comes with OSX by default (WebKit.framework)

so as thomthom said in another thread - it doesn't matter what browser you have installed on your machine, Sketchup only uses Trident(PC) and Webkit(Mac). so if the WebDialog works correctly on IE and Safari than it will work ok in Sketchup as well.

Pout · 26 Feb 2010, 14:02

Thanks TBD! Clear answer.
So i understand there is no difference for the browser version either (IE4-5-6-7-8 for example)

thomthom · 26 Feb 2010, 15:38

It will use the IE version installed on the system.
Though, I'd be rare to see IE6 - extremely rare to see any older than that.
But I'm moving to supporting only IE8 in my plugins. I really can't stand to patch up the older versions any more.

tbd · 26 Feb 2010, 20:47

@thomthom said:

It will use the IE version installed on the system.

it is the other way round - it will use that mshtml.dll you have on your system. when installing a new IE version you will get a new version of mshtml.dll

@thomthom said:

Though, I'd be rare to see IE6 - extremely rare to see any older than that.

windows xp sp2 has IE6 lots of machines have them still installed

thomthom · 27 Feb 2010, 02:27

I don't care - I'm not supporting it. IE updates with the system unless they block it. If they do - then their loss. That pesky thing needs to die.