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LAS has been tested on the following


Question:

What combinations of operating system / browser / server has LAS been tested on?

Explanation:

The LAS User Interface uses HTML, java and Javascript. We have attempted to use these in a cross-browser compatible fashion. If you have tried the LAS user interface or server on a system we haven't tested yet, please send a note to las@pmel.noaa.gov

One of the greatest hurdles to cross-browser support is the lack of uniform support for JavaScript calls to applet methods. LAS v6+ improves on earlier versions by failing over to a non-applet interface when this capability is lacking in a browser. For a quick test of whether your browser supports this capability we direct you to Peter Kofler's test page:

http://kofler.dot.at/browsersupport/jsapplet.html

 

User Interface Tables: LAS 6.x, LAS 5.x, LAS 4.x

Server Tables: LAS 6.x, LAS 5.x, LAS 4.x

   works
   fails
   works in 'no-applet' mode
   not tested

Note: If your browser doesn't fail-over, you may access the 'no-applet' mode on LAS 6.x by appending '?use_java=false' to the URL. For example:

http://someserver/las/servlets/dataset?use_java=false

The LAS 6.2 user interface has been tested with the following browser / operating system combinations:

Netscape Navigator
Mozilla
Internet Explorer
Opera
Safari

4.7

4.8
6.2
7.0
7.1
1.0
1.2
1.3
1.4
5.0
5.1
6.0
6.0
beta
 RedHat 7.3
!
 RedHat 9.0
 Windows XP
 Mac OS9.2*
 Mac OSX

* with MRJ plugin 1.0b5
! ugly as sin but it works

The LAS 6.0, 6.1 user interface has been tested with the following browser / operating system combinations:

 
Netscape Navigator
Mozilla
Internet Explorer
Opera
Safari
 
4.5

4.7

6.2
7.0
1.0
1.2
1.3
5.0
5.2
6.0
6.0
beta
 Sun OS 5.6
 IRIX 6.5
 OSF 4.0
 linux
 Win32
 Mac OS9
 Mac OSX

The LAS 5.x user interface has been tested with the following browser / operating system combinations:

Netscape Navigator
Mozilla
Internet Explorer
Opera
Safari
 

 4.5

 4.6

 4.7

6.2
7.0
1.0

1.3

4.5

5.0
5.2
5.5
6.0
beta
 Sun OS 5.6

 

 IRIX 6.5

 

 OSF 4.0
 linux
 Win 32

 

 

 

 Mac OS 9
 Mac OS X

 

The LAS 4.x user interface has been tested with the following browser / operating system combinations:

Netscape Navigator
Internet Explorer
 

 4.5

 4.51

 4.61

 4.7

 4.72

4.73 

4.74

4.75

4.77

6.0 PR2

4.5

5.0
5.5
 Sun OS 5.6

 

 

 

 

 IRIX 6.5

 

 OSF 4.0
 
 RedHat 6.1
 
 
 Windows 98
 Windows NT 4.00

 

 

 

 

 

 Mac PPC
 Mac PPC OS 8.6

 

 

 Mac G4

Server:

The LAS 6.2 server has been tested with the following web server / operating system combinations

apache
 

 1.3.x

 

 Solaris 2.6 / perl 5.6.0

 Solaris 2.8 / perl 5.6.0
 RedHat 7.1 / perl 5.6.0
     
 RedHat 7.3 / perl 5.6.0

 

The LAS 6.0, 6.1 server has been tested with the following web server / operating system combinations

apache
 

 1.3.x

 

 Solaris 2.6 / perl 5.6.0

 Solaris 2.8 / perl 5.6.0
 RedHat 7.1 / perl 5.6.0
     
 RedHat 7.3 / perl 5.6.0

 

The LAS 5.x server has been tested with the following web server / operating system combinations

 apache
 

 1.3.3

1.3.9

 Sun OS 5.6 / perl 5.6.0

 

 Sun OS 5.8 / perl 5.6.0
 OSF1 V4.0 / perl 5.005

 

 RedHat 6.1 / perl 5.005

 

The LAS 4.x server has been tested with the following web server / operating system combinations

 apache
 

 1.3.3

1.3.9

 Sun OS 5.6 / perl 5.6.0

 

 Sun OS 5.8 / perl 5.6.0
 OSF1 V4.0 / perl 5.005

 

 RedHat 6.1 / perl 5.005

 


Last modified: September 27, 2002