ASP.NET and Mac problems?

[Brian Bischof]

I have a bunch of happy customers all using my ASP.NET but then just got a
call from a Mac user who has many, many, many problems. I don't even own a
Mac or know how to turn one on! The site has extensive use of cookies, a
couple Session objects and there appears to be LOTS of problems with
textboxes. Both IE and Safari on the Mac are nightmares and she has the
latest software/hardware.

Is there a website that can talks about Macs with ASP.NET? This is going to
be a big problem to figure out b/c it is in a university setting and there
are lots of Macs that will be going to the site.

Thanks. Please help with advice or website links!

Brian

 

[bruce barker]

you would do well to load firefox (a w3c compliant browser) on your pc and
make the site look good there. MS has pretty much abondoned IE on the mac,
so I'd concentrate on Safari (which is very compatiable with firefox).

common problems:

1) you used grid mode - very bad
2) asp.net by default suppress style commands for non IE browsers - get
lastest browser caps data
3) using IE proprietary javascript commands.



| I have a bunch of happy customers all using my ASP.NET but then just got a
| call from a Mac user who has many, many, many problems. I don't even own a
| Mac or know how to turn one on! The site has extensive use of cookies, a
| couple Session objects and there appears to be LOTS of problems with
| textboxes. Both IE and Safari on the Mac are nightmares and she has the
| latest software/hardware.
|
| Is there a website that can talks about Macs with ASP.NET? This is going
to
| be a big problem to figure out b/c it is in a university setting and there
| are lots of Macs that will be going to the site.
|
| Thanks. Please help with advice or website links!
|
| Brian
|
|

 

[Eirik Eldorsen]

Try to add these browsercaps to the web.config file inside the <system.web>
tag:


<browserCaps>

<!-- GECKO Based Browsers (Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firebird, ...) //-->
<case match="^Mozilla/5\.0 \([^)]*\) (Gecko/[-\d]+)?
(?'type'[^/\d]*)([\d]*)/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*)).*">
browser=Gecko
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case match="rv?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters}">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

<!-- AppleWebKit Based Browsers (Safari...) //-->
<case
match="AppleWebKit/(?'version'(?'major'\d)(?'minor'\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
browser=AppleWebKit
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=0.${minor}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case
match="AppleWebKit/(?'version'(?'major'\d)(?'minor'\d+)(?'letters'\w*))(
\(KHTML, like Gecko\) )?(?'type'[^/\d]*)/.*$">
type=${type}
</case>
</case>

<!-- Konqueror //-->
<case
match="Konqueror/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'));\w*(?'platform'[^\)]*)">
browser=Konqueror
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
platform=${platform}
type=Konqueror
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
</case>

<!-- OPERA 5+ //-->
<case match="Opera[
/](?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
browser=Opera
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case match="rv?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters}">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

</browserCaps>

 

[Brian Bischof]

Thanks for the two comments. I'll investigate further to see if this helps
things out.

If anyone else wants to contribute, please do so.

Brian

Try to add these browsercaps to the web.config file inside the

tag:


<browserCaps>

<!-- GECKO Based Browsers (Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firebird, ...) //-->
<case match="^Mozilla/5\.0 \([^)]*\) (Gecko/[-\d]+)?
(?'type'[^/\d]*)([\d]*)/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w
*)).*">

browser=Gecko
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case

match="rv?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters}">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

<!-- AppleWebKit Based Browsers (Safari...) //-->
<case
match="AppleWebKit/(?'version'(?'major'\d)(?'minor'\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
browser=AppleWebKit
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=0.${minor}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case
match="AppleWebKit/(?'version'(?'major'\d)(?'minor'\d+)(?'letters'\w*))(
\(KHTML, like Gecko\) )?(?'type'[^/\d]*)/.*$">
type=${type}
</case>
</case>

<!-- Konqueror //-->
<case
match="Konqueror/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'));\w*(?'
platform'[^\)]*)">
browser=Konqueror
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
platform=${platform}
type=Konqueror
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
</case>

<!-- OPERA 5+ //-->
<case match="Opera[
/](?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
browser=Opera
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case match="rv?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters'\w*))">
version=${version}
majorversion=${major}
minorversion=${minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters}">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

</browserCaps>