Web Browser Support

Web-related parts of Cradle-5.6 have been changed to be compatible with all popular web browsers:

• Firefox, on Windows and Apple Mac version 2.0 or later, on UNIX/Linux version 1.5 or later, 2.0 or later preferred (available for all of the UNIX platforms supported by Cradle)
• Internet Explorer, on Windows version 5.5 or later
• Mozilla, on UNIX / Linux version 1.7.5 or later (not available for all of the UNIX platforms supported by Cradle)
• Opera, on Windows version 9 or later
• Safari, on Apple Mac version 2.0 or later, with WebKit 522 or later (for SVG support)

This support applies to:

• The new web-based help system
• The 3SL-supplied web UIs and other web UIs developed with the Cradle Web Access facility
• HTML view/table output from Toolset and WorkBench
• Static websites published by the Web Publisher tool

If you have created any custom web UIs with the Cradle Web Access facility, you may need to change the code for your web UIs for them to continue to work with Cradle-5.6. Please contact 3SL, directly or via your Cradle supplier for more information.

Cradle opens web browsers to view web UIs and HTML output files using a user-defined command, which is:

"$BROWSER" "$PATH"

where $BROWSER is replaced by the pathname of your web browser, and $PATH is replaced by the pathname of a HTML file to be opened, or a URL to be displayed.

On Windows, the default browser is defined in the registry. On UNIX and Linux systems, it is not possible to determine a default browser, so Cradle can only replace $BROWSER with netscape, which will almost certainly NOT be the correct browser for your system.

To set the UNIX/Linux web browser for all Cradle users, edit the system startup file:

$CRADLEHOME/bin/exe/ arch/.cradlerc