Mutual Browser Conflicts Disclosure

Abstract

In today’s world everything is becoming web dependent, and due to the advances made in web technologies, web developers have to face various challenges. Every web application before being deployed goes through various phases which may look different on different browsers. It becomes difficult to identify correct web page when it gives differences across different browsers. The web pages may give significant differences and it is known as cross-browser inconsistency. A technology that has gained a prominent position known as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), in which the combination of JavaScript and Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation, along with asynchronous server communication is used to achieve a high level of user interactivity. With this change in developing web applications comes a whole set of new challenges, One way to address these challenges is through the use of a crawler that can automatically walk through different states of a highly dynamic AJAX site and create a model of the navigational paths and states. Identifying these conflicts manually is a laborious task. Mutual browser conflict disclosure presents a mechanism to identify conflicts.