Help: Support for Firefox & Linux

[L2XL]

I have an ASP.NET (VB) app that I created for the Windows and IE6
enviroment. When it runs under Firefox on Windows it looks similar but has
some display issues. When I run it under Firefox on Linix it has the same
issues as Firefox on Windows, plus it has font display issues.

I have only worked with Windows and IE6 and haven't tried supporting
additional browsers or systems on this website. Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to best accomodate these other systems? Assuming I check
for Browser and OS, do I add a CASE statement in each procedure and change
the targetSchema and fonts? Or what?

Can anyone provide me a simple example?

Thank you,

Gary

 

[Jeff Siver]

First, make sure that your HTML is valid. Most of the issues I've seen are
related to IE handling invalid HTML structures better than FireFox. It is
also worth noting that depending upon how you use panels, those can cause
ASP.NET to generated invalid HTML.

I would then handle any exceptions with a case statement but there shouldn't
be too many in my experience. Though having said that, I would also say
that I don't use a ton of JavaScript so you might have more issues there.

Jeff

 

[Bruce Barker]

besure your browsercaps file is uptodate or asp.net will not render width
and height styles for firefox. also firefox uses w3c html 4.0 and CSS
standards where IE doesn't conform (except IE on the mac).

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Jeff Sheldon]

I haven't had much of a problem with developing applications that work in
firefox and ie. I've found that if you develop for firefox, 9/10 it'll work
in ie.
There are some javascript issues, but I don't use that much, so it hasn't
been a real issue. So I just set my default browser to firefox, and code
away. Checking ie, every now and then to make sure it looks ok.

 

[bcutting]

I would go download Firefox and install the Tidy, WebdeveloperTools,
and Javascript debugger. Between the three you should be able to get
it to work on Firefox, which usualy will then make it compatable with
NS and Safari