We have a lot of Mac users here, 40% of the hits to our OPAC are from Macs so this is important to us.

Richard, I tried installing the bookmarklet tool in Safari on a Mac last week and maganaged to install by importing the bookmark from the Firefox browser. Bookmarking worked OK for websites and in a limited way for electronic journals but no luck with our catalogue - AquaBrowser. It just bookmarked the search page. We are really hoping that this development will be taken forward.

We too are getting inquiries from academics using Macs with Safari. We are advising they install Firefox for use with Aspire. Installing the Bookmarklet tool is slightly different - (Ctrl + click on Add to My Bookmarks) and add the liblists url as an exception if 'block pop ups' is active. It would good to have the option to install the bookmarklet tool with Safari.

Can Talis add an actual 'Under review' status to this item - if this is still the case from last year? Better still, could there be an update on the current position regarding Mac browsers - is it better to try the IE plugin in Safari or the Firefox one, et al?

We would be interested in seeing this developed - hopefully, if it's a case of testing and documentation, the lead time need not be that long... We too have numerous Macs on campus (and on the home office desks of academics).

IMPORTED COMMENTS HISTORY
01/11/2009 10:23:38 [Ian Corns (Talis)]
I've proposed a story around this - XIP-1431. Having discussed with the developers, the existing tools may work with Safari but haven't been tested. In addition, no documentation exists around it. The story is fairly open at this point, to cover testing /
development / documentation, all as required.

01/11/2009 10:24:05 [Ian Corns (Talis)]
Status Changed from Active to Under Review.