Re: more question about the web site
- From: "Matthew Horspool" <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:20:46 +0100
Hi,
Lovette Yewchan wrote: "I am running JAWS 8 and she is running a lower
version could that be an issue?"
Yes. In fact, it probably is.
In JAWS 7.1 Freedom Scientific introduced a new method for rendering the
contents of Web Pages and displaying them in the Virtual Buffer called the
FSDOM (Freedom Scientific Document Object Model). Under JAWS 7.1 this
option was selectable using the "Use Legacy HTML Support" checkbox in the
HTML Options dialog of configuration manager, and I think most people chose
to keep that box checked as HTML support was much more reliable.
Freedom Scientific made some changes to the FSDOM in Version 8.0, the most
notable being putting the address bar and the other tool bars back into the
tab order, and they removed the "Use Legacy HTML Support" option.
Whilst the Internet support using FSDOM 10.14 (under JAWS 8.0) is certainly
a lot better than that of FSDOM 10.12 (under JAWS 7.1), the Legacy HTML
Support was much better in certain areas. For one thing, the Internet is
much more responsive when using Legacy support. For another, which applies
in your situation, the FSDOM struggles with certain web pages whilst the
Legacy support does not. Having said that I've not personally seen any
examples but it is obvious to me that they exist given the number of bug
reports that have been sent to lists such as these.
I hope that answers your question,
Matthew Horspool
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