Application testing

[Stephen]

Hi,

I have developed my application using VS.NET and used project properties to
both IE and Netscape. I am testing my application on IE and Netscape.
The pages appear perfect on IE but totally messed up on Netscape.
can anyone please suggest me how to solve this problem?

Thanks,
Stephen

[Charles Chen]

The following may help.

Summary:

Essentially, ASP.Net is configured to treat all browsers
other than IE as down-level browsers. This means that
while Opera 7, NN6+, and a host of other browsers are
perfectly capable, ASP.Net's HtmlTextWriter will generate
down-level HTML for these browsers. From link one below:
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intro: ASP.Net -- its Request.Browser object is useful for
easy browser detection. Request.Browser uses the
<browserCaps> section of the machine.config XML file (and
the optional web.config XML file) to match the current
browser's User-Agent string with its matching
capabilities.

problem: just like ASP's browscap.ini before it, nobody
official is taking responsibility to update this info.
Microsoft pawns the job off on Cyscape.com, which doesn't
care about doing the world a service (it's busy making a
buck on its competing BrowserHawk product instead). As a
result, machine.config is already woefully out-of-date,
and unaware of newer browsers like Netscape 7, Safari, and
Konqueror, so Request.Browser believes that they
are "Netscape 5" (though Safari and Konqueror are wholly
unrelated rendering engines).

problem 2: I went searching and searching for a newer
<browserCaps> section updated by someone else. I found
some possibilites (linked below), but I didn't like that
they don't identify Netscape as Gecko (extrapolating the
Netscape brand's marketing version from the real Gecko
engine's version). Since Gecko is the rendering engine
underneath, that's what we webdevs should care about.

solution: ...so I rolled my own. I swiped a starting
point (also linked below), and warmed up my RegEx skills
again for the rest. Besides identifying Netscape 6+ and
Mozilla/Firebird as Gecko, it also fixes detection of
Konqueror and Safari (aka AppleWebKit engine), both of
which are erroneously ID'd as Netscape5 by the default
machine.config.
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More information here:

http://www.schkerke.com/blog/archive...07/19/293.aspx

http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/
http://www.hunterstone.com/browsercaps/browsercaps.xml
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Please update your file Web.config or Machine.config file
as it may cause several different ServerControls to render
incorrectly in browsers such as Opera and FireFox.

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have developed my application using VS.NET and used project properties toboth IE and Netscape. I am testing my application on IE and Netscape.The pages appear perfect on IE but totally messed up on Netscape.can anyone please suggest me how to solve this problem?

Thanks,
Stephen
.

[Stephen]

Thanks Guys,

I added the piece of code to my mchine.config file and it works.

Thanks again,
Stephen.

"Ryan Riddell" <Ry*********@di scussions.micro soft.com> wrote in message
news:CD******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Thanks for the post. I have heard of BrowserCaps before but never dealt with it. At work we are in an IE only intranet environment so I don't care if the pages look terrible in FireFox. It is against company policy to run
unauthorized software and IE is the only authorized browser. But at home it is a different story, I personally prefer FireFox.

So the question I have to get at now. There are multiple custom BrowserCaps out there. What version of end-user done BrowserCaps is good to use? Have the versions you linked been tested well with different browsers?

Thanks.

"Charles Chen" wrote:

Microsoft pawns the job off on Cyscape.com, which doesn't
care about doing the world a service (it's busy making a
buck on its competing BrowserHawk product instead). As a
result, machine.config is already woefully out-of-date,
and unaware of newer browsers like Netscape 7, Safari, and
Konqueror, so Request.Browser believes that they
are "Netscape 5" (though Safari and Konqueror are wholly
unrelated rendering engines).

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More information here:

http://www.schkerke.com/blog/archive...07/19/293.aspx

http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/
http://www.hunterstone.com/browsercaps/browsercaps.xml
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