Firefox

I'm currently developing a ASP.NET v2 application in VS 2005. Historically,
I've used Crystal Reports and I'm very familiar with that system. However,
this application needs to be hosted by an ISP on the internet so I'm now
constrained by the services offered by the hosting service.
When I've investigated Crystal hosting, the price jumps up significantly and
I was told by one hosting company that if I did find a Crystal hosting
service, they are probably using a dodgy licensing model. This project is
also cost constrained...
However, companies like www.discountasp.net offer SQL Server 2005 with
reporting services for just $15 a month which is great. I'm just watching
the webcasts from Microsoft and reporting services looks ideal and pretty
neat.
But I'm little concerned about cross-browser compatibility... does anyone
have any comments on this? Firefox is probably the only other browser that I
must support.
Thanks, Rob.
PS.On Jan 16, 5:51 pm, "Rob" <rob_nicholson@.nospam_unforgettable.com>
wrote:
> I'm currently developing a ASP.NET v2 application in VS 2005. Historically,
> I've used Crystal Reports and I'm very familiar with that system. However,
> this application needs to be hosted by an ISP on the internet so I'm now
> constrained by the services offered by the hosting service.
> When I've investigated Crystal hosting, the price jumps up significantly and
> I was told by one hosting company that if I did find a Crystal hosting
> service, they are probably using a dodgy licensing model. This project is
> also cost constrained...
> However, companies likewww.discountasp.netoffer SQL Server 2005 with
> reporting services for just $15 a month which is great. I'm just watching
> the webcasts from Microsoft and reporting services looks ideal and pretty
> neat.
> But I'm little concerned about cross-browser compatibility... does anyone
> have any comments on this? Firefox is probably the only other browser that I
> must support.
> Thanks, Rob.
> PS
Generally speaking, the compatibility is pretty good with Firefox in
comparison with IE6 and IE7. There are a few drawbacks however. One is
that when viewing reports directly in the Report Manager, IE shows the
entire report page in the initial view; whereas, Firefox has a
scrunched down version about one-third the normal height of the report
page, which requires vertical scrolling to view the entire report. The
search control that is naturally a part of the toolbar in the Report
Manager for IE, does not exist in Firefox (though the user can select
Ctrl+F to do a search on the current page in Firefox; but, not quite
the same thing). Also, drill through report functionality does not
work as well in Firefox as it does in IE. Otherwise, the main
differences between Crystal Reports and SSRS are that: there are
slightly different export options, they have a different production
licensing scheme and that Crystal Reports expression syntax is
different than that of SSRS, which uses VB.NET syntax. Also, CR has
been around longer and has a few minor functionality options that SSRS
does not. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant