Abstract: Multi-browser interactivity testing records user interactions with a recorder browser for subsequent playback in one or more player browsers. User input to the recorder browser directed at a Document Object Model element is intercepted, and the input and element are noted in an interaction record. After reading the interaction record in a player browser, a corresponding element is located, using attribute values or other mechanisms. The user input is applied to the located player element(s) by simulated system level events, and the results are displayed. Player browser playback can be synchronized with screenshots or video clips of the recorder browser. The interaction recording can also be edited. Layout which depends on interactive behaviors such as login or accordion controls, and other aspects of interactivity, can be tested without manually repeating the input for each browser, and despite differences in the layout engines.

Abstract: Multi-browser interactivity testing connects a leader browser and one or more follower browsers. Direct user input to the follower browsers is blocked. User input to the leader browser directed at a Document Object Model element is intercepted. A corresponding element is located in each follower browser, using attribute values or other mechanisms. The user input is applied to the leader element, and applied to the follower element(s) by simulated system level events, and the results are displayed in real time on all browsers. Layout which depends on interactive behaviors such as login or accordion controls, and other aspects of interactivity can be tested without manually repeating the input for each browser, and despite differences in the screen territories assigned to an element by different browser's layout engines. The leader and follower browser roles can also be interchanged automatically.

Abstract: A method and data structure that allows a user to view a spreadsheet in a “calculator” mode, wherein certain cells are non-editable. The calculator designer/creator can alter the default as to which cells are editable when the calculator is displayed in the calculator preview mode. Once the designer/creator made all modifications in the calculator preview mode, the user can change the cell values in the calculator mode based on the adjustments made in the calculator preview mode. The invention further allows the user to embed the calculator in any web page, to email a link to the calculator, and to open and save the calculator.