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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / Web Controls / March 2007menu control browser compatiblity
We average 4% Safari intranet and 24% internet (student related site). The ASP.NET 2.0 Menu Control is not working properly under Mac OS on Safari 2.0.2 browsers. Did some searching and didn't come up with anything easy to fix it. Tried messing with the browser caps and browser definition files. Little worried about messing with those file because it could adversely affect Ajax or other controls. Does the CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapter kit work/ been tested with Safari or is it just another half baked idea? Any ideas on the menu control? Should I scrap it? Hello Chuck, As for the menu control, the original problem of it is due to the default control adapter render those menu items through html <table> elements. However, html table element usually has different behaviors in different client browsers, and some webbrowser may not display it well. So the CSS Friend control adapter use html <div> layer to replace <table> based menu item which is more browser friendly. However, I'm not sure whether that has been fully tested through all kinds of browsers in addition to those main stream ones(such as IE, FF, NS...). Anyway, you can try testing some html <div> based html content through Safari or any other browser to see whether <div> can be rendered identical to those in IE or FF. Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thanks, I was hoping to know if it would work ahead of time. It's a lot of work to put the control adapters into production and keep the control adapters versions up to date. Thanks for your reply Chuck, Yes, replace all those controls to use control adapters in production environmente is quite expensive. Therefore, it is recommended that you choose some typical control(mostly used in your application that you want to adopt the css adapter) and test them in a development machine (test web application). Here are some blog article which introducing some info and tips on using css control adapter. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/02/CSS-Control-Adapter-Toolki t-for-ASP.NET-2.0-.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/11/29/tip-trick-use-the-asp-net- 2-0-css-control-adapters-for-css-friendly-html-output.aspx and the white paper has detailed view of each adapter's customizable options: http://www.asp.net/CSSAdapters/WhitePaper.aspx Also, as mentioned in the first article, you can add ".browser" file in web application to indicate whether to use or not use the certain control adapter according to the client browser setting. Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thanks, It's shameful the original controls and the control adapters aren't tested and documented to be compatible with Safari and other browsers. I hate buying a control package from one of the vendors (Infragistics etc) because of the cost and maintenance. However, they do state the controls work with common browsers and they do patch them when new browser versions come out. We ended up putting ClientTarget="UpLevel" in the pages. This seems to work with the latest release of Safari. Thanks for your reply Chuck, Yes, some 3rd party vendor provided such kind of control package and even dedicated on this. Usually, the Visual Studio UIFX dev team will produce some flexible or extensible framework package so that end users and other ISVs and do further development based on them. I also think that the control adapter should have been tested against those popular browsers, but seems there hasn't provded a complete documentation on this. I think it would be good to include such information in the future. You're welcome to submit this request to our feedback center: http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/default.aspx?SiteID=210 Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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