Using the Browser Compatibility report

Use the Browser Compatibility report to assess your application's user-interface-related rules for compatibility across browser types.

Work item forms and reports that are part of an application can be designed to operate with Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox browsers as well as with Internet Explorer. (For the exact list of supported browsers and versions, consult the Platform Support Guide, available on the PDN.) This report checks the value set in the Browser Support field (on the HTML tab) of all the harness, flow action, section, HTML, HTML property, and HTML fragment rules in your application, and displays a chart that illustrates the browser compatibility of those rules for the different browser types. The percentage value is the total number of items called by the top-level item (harness or flow action) divided by the number of those items that are marked as cross-browser. See PDN article 25240 How to run the Browser Compatibility report.

By default, this tool does not include warnings on rules imported with the Import Archive tool from other PRPC systems and not resaved, or rules that were last saved in Version 4 systems.

Starting the tool

The scope and results of this tool depend on your application RuleSets and the currently selected work pool name.

Click the link containing your name at the top of the navigation panel to see the profile display. Review the area titled Application RuleSets to confirm which RuleSets are to be checked by this tool.
Select > Application > Tools > Browser Compatibility Report.

The Browser Compatibility report displays a chart that assesses the user interface rules in your application for compatibility across these browser types. This report checks the value set in the Browser Support field (on the HTML tab) of all the harness, flow action, section, HTML, HTML property, and HTML fragment rules in your application. The percentage value is the total number of items called by the top-level item (harness or flow action) divided by the number of those items that are marked as cross-browser. See PDN article 25240 How to run the Browser Compatibility report.

For each rule of those rule types:

If the Browser Support field is set to IE only, the HTML and JSP generated from the rule is not considered cross-browser compatible.
If the Browser Support field is set to All Supported Browsers, the HTML and JSP generated from the rule is considered cross- browser compatible.

For purposes of this chart, a rule is counted as cross-browser compatible if any of the following are true:

The Auto-generated HTML? option on the HTML tab is selected (so the HTML and JSP code is generated rather than hand-crafted).
You use a standard rule that is marked as cross-browser compatible (the Browser Support field is set to All Supported Browsers.
The Auto-generated HTML? option is cleared but the Browser Support field is set to All Supported Browsers.

If you or other developers clear the Auto-generated HTML? option and enter HTML code manually, it is your responsibility to test your code in all browsers. The Browser Compatibility report does not validate your code.

The report specifies the Rule Type name, the count of visual elements, a bar chart indicating the compatibility, and the actual percentage value of compatibility for each rule type. Click the orange triangle () next to any Rule Type name, RuleSet name, or Visual Element to drill down in the table for more detailed information.

Which rules are included and excluded

Which rules the Browser Compatibility evaluates depends only on your application RuleSets, determined by the application rule identified for your access group.

Don't confuse application RuleSets — an unordered collection of RuleSets supporting this tool and other developer tools — with the RuleSet list, an ordered list of RuleSet Versions used at runtime for rule resolution.

Note

This tool was part of the Application Preflight tool in V5-V6.2SP1.

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