umm....Chrome's based on *webkit* (as is Safari). On 6/6/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My sentiments exactly. > > Nice to see someone on here who understands the fundamental technologies, > btw. > > Take care, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Varun Khosla > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 3:27 AM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome > > DOM of Chrome and Firefox is based On single technology called Gecko > developed by Mozilla. This means that Chrome should have started > working with Jaws much earlier and such delay simply signifies plane > laziness. > > The gecko technology is the only reason why The same scripts being > used in both browsers. > > 5/29/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sorry for the cross posting, but as this fundamentally affects, or at >> least >> can, how most of us interact with the web, I thought I'd >> share. >> >> I fired up the latest Google chrome, as I do from time to time, to play >> around with it, and I noticed that jaws 12 started reading >> me the page. First I thought, oh cute, the virtual cursor recognition >> finally got smart enough to recognize the chrome window as >> non-static text, but then I said, hmm, that's reading awfully well, so I >> hit >> h and navigated by header, and I went to different >> URLs, and they all read correctly. >> >> Further investigation shows that jaws is aliasing chrome to Firefox. The >> Firefox scripts, in fact, are what is loaded if you do an >> insert+q. >> >> So, apparently no longer is NVDA the only windows screen reader that >> supports chrome. >> >> Good to see, I thought. >> >> Btw, I checked, and sure enough, the line: >> >> chrome=Firefox >> >> appears in the default confignames.ini shipping with jaws. >> >> Would have been nice to know ... just a thought. >> >> Take care, >> Sina >> >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> > > > -- > Varun > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind