Compatibility request

[Ciaran P. A. Connelly]

Westlaw is one of two (significant) research alternatives for members 
of the legal profession.  (The other option is lexis-nexus, and while 
there are still others, none are anywhere near the same league as 
Westlaw and Lexis).

Though he didn't provide a url, you'd find very quickly that westlaw is 
located at www.westlaw.com, and about a billion similar urls as well.  
It's difficult to check the code however, unless you have a Westlaw 
password, which can be extremely costly (some firms get charged several 
dollars per minute, while others use a transaction-based scheme - 
regardless billing is expensive).  Westlaw may offer free/temporary 
passwords to web browser developers, but because of the value of their 
service, I suspect you'd have to work for Omni to get one.

Omniweb is, and has been, largely compatible with Westlaw since the 
release of 4.1, and continued (with much better compatibility) with the 
release of 4.5.  There's little I cannot do in Westlaw with Omniweb 
currently (nothing comes to mind...) but the biggest problem is that 
Westlaw makes extensive use of framesets: something that Webcore (both 
in Safari and Omniweb) is not particularly great at handling.  The 
result is slowness, bugginess, and generally not great performance.

I for one, would love to see improvements in this area, but aside from 
incorporating the latest webcore, I'm not sure Omni's in a position to 
improve frameset speeds/performance/reliability.

I have also been in contact with Westlaw, who are currently considering 
officially supporting Safari.

For the original poster, I believe Westlaw officially supports Netscape 
and Internet Explorer on the Mac - if you want that compatibility 
without having to use IE, or the bloat of Netscape, try using Camino.  
That's what I do when Omniweb fails to play nice (or fails to play fast 
enough) with Westlaw...




On Jan 1, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Neil Lee wrote:

> Le 01 janv. 2004, à 18:53, Jonathan A. Duke a écrit :
>
>> I need to offer my clients a browser that works 100% of the time with 
>> Westlaw.
>>
>> While I know that every site is a moving target, Westlaw shouldn't be 
>> too difficult (I hope).
>
> What is westlaw? A URL might be helpful, so that we could see how the 
> code looks.
>
> Neil
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