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Asp.net for safari browser?

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Paul W - 14 Jul 2005 23:30 GMT
Hi - can someone point me to info on the issues/resolutions of supporting
the safari browser?

To help me understand, if I was developing pages in say FrontPage, what
attributes would I set for 'target browser'?

I'm having a helluva time with table layouts etc and goin' stir crazy..

Thanks, Paul.
clintonG - 15 Jul 2005 00:06 GMT
These resources [1],[2] should help you out.

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[1] http://www.garykeith.com/browsers/
[2]
http://staff.develop.com/ballen/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1bf2016a-d8b5-48f1-b37a
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Juan T. Llibre - 15 Jul 2005 01:34 GMT
Pauk,

See : http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/

Apparently, later versions of Safari are a bit buggy,
and cannot handle HTML 4.0 as well as they should.

Safari version 1.2.2. (build 125.7) and later have some issues.

There's quite a few versions of Safari :
http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/uamatrix.html

I'd check to see the level of support which Safari's different versions have,
and make a decision as to which versions of Safari you'll support.

Supporting them all will be a nightmare.

As far as the "target browser", that won't do very much unless
you can pin down Safari's exact capabilities, so you can create
an intelligent  browsercaps definition for it.

You could setup a clientTarget element, per :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/g
ngrfClientTargetElement.asp

but doing that for the different flavors of Safari
will keep you working for quite a while.

Maybe a good way to make sure Safari can read your pages would be
to check Apple's recommendations for building web pages, particularly
the XHTML section, which both Safari and Visual Studio support :

http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/bestwebdev.html

Smart use of CSS classes will help a lot, too.
Again, both Safari and VS.NET support it. See the above doc.

Maybe this will help you, maybe not.
If you want to support Safari, you'll have to sweat hard anyway.

Now for the bad news: as of ASP.NET 2.0, the whole browser
discovery/capability assigning paradigm changes once more,
so we'll have to relearn everything.

:-)

Juan T. Llibre
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> Hi - can someone point me to info on the issues/resolutions of supporting the safari
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clintonG - 15 Jul 2005 15:37 GMT
Nice job of scaring the hell out of everybody Juan :-)

Do you have any references to the 2.0 changes you referred to? This MSDN
article [1] is all I have so far.

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[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/ASPColumn/default.aspx

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