Call it the relative pain of working in an advertising company and trying to integrate systems between PC and MAC. The Yellow Page Tracking tool I’ve been working on has some reporting stuff in it, so after attending the Microsoft Launch Event in Atlanta last week (read: Yay us. Linux sucks. Apple sucks. We rule) I thought I would give SQL Reporting Services in SQL 2005 a shot.
At first blush, I like it. It’s really quite easy to setup a decent looking report and having it fire in a relatively intelligent manner. I DON’T like having to implement it on a WebForm via the ReportViewer, but I guess if it works… Now, for the problem. The control isn’t fully supported on anything other than IE6 (for PC). In Firefox, Opera, Flock, Opera for the Mac, Safari, Netscape, and even IE5.5 it doesn’t allow for the Print option to even come up, because it’s an ActiveX Control.
I’m really hoping that if Microsoft puts out a Service Pack for this product (which they surely will), they’ll include support for non-IE browsers.