Browser compatibility
As a cloud platform and when building cloud applications, we're highly dependent on browser developers like Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. If they decide to suddenly drop a feature, that might break functionality on our platform. Luckily, they don't drop features all that often.
It goes the other way around as well. As new features are developed, our development team is eager to implement and use the new feature when we can put it to good use. But if only Google implemented it in latest versions of Chrome, we may have built something that only works for a minority of our users.
For this reason, we maintain this page with our browser compatibility overview. We have a general rule of thumb, that we try to adhere to as much as we can. Wherever we know that we have different behavior in different browsers, we will document it on this page.
General rule of thumb
In general, we focus on being compatible with the major browsers in the market (at this point Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari) on the major desktop and mobile operating systems (Windows 10, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS).
As developments go fast in the browser world, we decided to not create a big matrix with all versions at the risk of being outdated, but our general rule of thumb is the following:
Grexx Platform is compatible with the major browsers on the major desktop and mobile platforms in combinations that are still supported by their manufacturers.
This means that if Microsoft drops support for Internet Explorer in Windows 10, we also drop support for that combination. If Microsoft drops support for Windows 7 in general, we also drop support for browsers on that platform. We use the "End of Life" or "End of Support" dates as communicated by the manufacturers.
In practice this comes down to the latest release on the stable channel or a long-term support release of the following:
| Browser | OS |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Windows 10, macOS |
| Microsoft Edge | Windows 10, macOS (Refer to the Microsoft Docs for more information.) |
| Mozilla Firefox | Windows 10, macOS |
| Apple Safari | macOS |
An important side note here is that we do not support server operating systems. Of course, installing Chrome on a Windows Server machine will probably work, but if it doesn't, we can't really help you. This is both because of the very low percentage of users that will ever use our applications on a server OS and because we simply don't have the correct tools to test our platform on all these combinations. The exception to this is that the Grexx Connect interfaces and RESTful API endpoints should work from server OSes.
Known exceptions
Studio works only/best in Chromium based browsers and on desktop
The Studio works best in Webkit or Chromium-based browsers. As editors like the dataset editor and form editor require a lot of custom code, they are not thoroughly tested on all platforms. Please note that mobile platforms are not supported for the Studio at this point.
Minimum recommended resolution in the Studio
The Studio works best with a Full HD resolution 1920x1080. If scaling is used, an even higher resolution is recommended. Some functionality, like the designers and walkthroughs, may work suboptimally at lower resolutions.