Support for Safari on the iPad is for the standard “desktop” CGI Advantage applications as they would normally be accessed through the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
Known limitations, and certain explanations of browser behavior, are described below.
Popup windows and Javascript must be enabled (through the standard Safari settings in the iPad Settings app).
Scrollbars are generally not rendered by Safari on iPad. The browser relies on standard touch scrolling techniques, such as one-finger scrolling of a page left/right/up/down, one-finger scrolling of text within a textbox, and spotlight scrolling of text.
The Top action, found on certain types of CGI Advantage pages, does not function and you must rely on the standard touch scrolling techniques to navigate to the top of the page.
Due to the nature of the iPad touch interface certain CGI Advantage keyboard-based features are not operational. For example it is not possible to invoke keyboard shortcuts, such as those dependent on the Ctrl and Alt keyboard buttons.
File downloads behave differently under a variety of scenarios and circumstances. In general “file download” may apply to the downloading of document attachments, table attachments, generated Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, generated CSV files, and other scenarios where a file is streamed back to your browser (for example, requesting a PDF from a Financial Transactions inquiry page in CGI Advantage Vendor Self Service).
For certain file types and certain kinds of download actions, Safari may invoke a built-in “Quick Look” viewer. This is most commonly observed for PDF and Excel file types, but also applies to additional file types to which Quick Look is enabled.
For certain download actions, the press-and-hold gesture (on the file link, download action, or similar) may appear and present you with a list of installed apps that are capable of receiving files. The iPad may restrict the apps shown in this selection based on the file type. For example, an app like Dropbox is capable of receiving any file. An app like iBooks may only be capable of receiving certain document types. Therefore, the options that result from the press-and-hold gesture will vary depending on the apps installed on a particular device.
Safari may automatically hyperlink certain numbers as if they are phone numbers.