I need help with javascripts and electronic medical record please!

[rcyphermd]

My practice is using an electronic medical record called healthfusion. It is ipad based. Yuck. I am trying to get it to work on a Samsung Galaxy 8. It does not work with the native browser, nor chrome, Dolphin, opera, firefox. It does work with maxthon.

When I contacted tech support from health fusion, they said Android does not support javascripts. I am not a geek, so I am not sure what all that means. The Dolphin browser has javascripts listed as on . I downloaded a bunch of browsers and the maxthon is the only one that worked. Suggestions?

I really like using slideit or swype for text input which I cannot do with the ipad.
Thanks for your help.

 

[El Barto]

Hello,

To give you a quick run down, JavaScript is primarily a web based programming language used by web browsers and it is very much supported by Android.

I can't say for certain without knowing what the app does but it sounds like they're a little lazy and have just developed it for the iPad and not taken other browsers into consideration.

Just to point out I'm a web developer by profession and have experience building web apps for mobile devices.

I will say though that there are differences between the JavaScript support on the iPad and on Android so it does take extra time to get it working on both, they may just think there aren't enough of their customers with Android devices for it to be worth them spending the time & money on making it work on both.

Hope this helps you a bit, even though it doesn't solve your problem.

 

[rcyphermd]

Why would it work on maxthon but not the others?

 

[El Barto]

Why would it work on maxthon but not the others?

It'll be down to the rendering engine, which is the part of the browser which interprets code & displays it to the user. If you want more of an explanation of what a rendering engine Wikipedia has a small article on it or if you Google the term "What is a web browser rendering engine" I'm sure there'll be some good results.

From what I understand Maxthon uses both WebKit (used as a base by Safari & Chrome) & Trident (used by Internet Explorer), bit odd actually using a combination of two engines normally it is just one. I've heard of this browser before but they don't have a big enough market share for me to invest time into testing apps & web sites on it so my knowledge of them is somewhat limited.

Also I should point out that even though WebKit is used as a base by Safari & Chrome they both take WebKit then make their own changes & modifications, so even though the core of their rendering engines is the same they can behave quite differently. Especially on mobile devices.

I have to admit it does always seem like Android is behind iOS when it comes to browsers but Android has been catching up quite rapidly! Having said that I'm sure the functionality of the health app you were asking about can be made to work if the developers put in the time.

Another thing to point out is that on iOS no matter what browser you download they are all forced to use the same rendering engine so sites should always look the same no matter what browser you use. Android however allows developers to add their own engines which is why something can work in one browser but not another.

Can't tell you specifically what Android is missing to make the health app you mentioned work as I haven't used it but even if I had chances are if I got any more specific I'd be talking about code.

Hope this is being helpful.