[LINK] Internet Explorer 9

[Johann Kruse]

On 12 February 2011 12:45, Rachel Polanskis <grove at zeta.org.au> wrote:
>>> So to access rich resources, you cannot
>>> even use OWA anymore unless you are on a PC.  Otherwise it will present you with
>>> OWA "lite".   And, apparently, it is not even consistent then, because some Windows
>>> users cannot access Rich OWA either, because of bugs in Exploiter.  To quote Vonnegut,
>>> "so it goes"....
>>
>>
>> Actually that is not quite correct... Exchange 2010 is the first
>> version of OWA that is fully supported on non-Microsoft browsers.
>> This is the full premium OWA, not OWA Lite.
>>
>> From http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/bb899685.aspx ....
>>
> Please explain then, why using Firefox on Solaris connecting to OWA first displays the
> rich content and then 1 second later refreshes with a blank window requesting I download
> an activex extension.   ActiveX is not available for my platform so I get the crippled
> functionality of "lite" even though it is obvious my browser can display the correct content.
>
> rachel


Not sure, but that does sound weird as OWA 2010 doesn't require ActiveX.

I haven't tried Solaris but it works nicely for me on Firefox (Windows
and Linux), Chrome (Windows) and Safari.