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.

"Brian Bischof" <Br***@NoSpamBi schofSystems.co m> wrote in message
news:e1******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
| 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'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'\w*)).*">
browser=Gecko
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case match="rv:(?'ve rsion'(?'major' \d+)(?'minor'\. \d+)(?'letters' \w*))">
version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=${ minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters }">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

<!-- AppleWebKit Based Browsers (Safari...) //-->
<case
match="AppleWeb Kit/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d)(?'mino r'\d+)(?'letter s'\w*))">
browser=AppleWe bKit
version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=0. ${minor}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case
match="AppleWeb Kit/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d)(?'mino r'\d+)(?'letter s'\w*))(
\(KHTML, like Gecko\) )?(?'type'[^/\d]*)/.*$">
type=${type}
</case>
</case>

<!-- Konqueror //-->
<case
match="Konquero r/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'));\w*(?'p latform'[^\)]*)">
browser=Konquer or
version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=${ minor}
platform=${plat form}
type=Konqueror
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
</case>

<!-- OPERA 5+ //-->
<case match="Opera[
/](?'version'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'\w*))">
browser=Opera
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case match="rv:(?'ve rsion'(?'major' \d+)(?'minor'\. \d+)(?'letters' \w*))">
version=${versi on}
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

"Eirik Eldorsen" <ku*******@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
news:Oi******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

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'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'\w
*)).*"> browser=Gecko
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case match="rv:(?'ve rsion'(?'major' \d+)(?'minor'\. \d+)(?'letters' \w*))"> version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=${ minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters }">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

<!-- AppleWebKit Based Browsers (Safari...) //-->
<case
match="AppleWeb Kit/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d)(?'mino r'\d+)(?'letter s'\w*))">
browser=AppleWe bKit
version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=0. ${minor}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case
match="AppleWeb Kit/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d)(?'mino r'\d+)(?'letter s'\w*))(
\(KHTML, like Gecko\) )?(?'type'[^/\d]*)/.*$">
type=${type}
</case>
</case>

<!-- Konqueror //-->
<case
match="Konquero r/(?'version'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'));\w*(?'
platform'[^\)]*)"> browser=Konquer or
version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=${ minor}
platform=${plat form}
type=Konqueror
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
</case>

<!-- OPERA 5+ //-->
<case match="Opera[
/](?'version'(?'m ajor'\d+)(?'min or'\.\d+)(?'let ters'\w*))">
browser=Opera
type=${type}
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=tru e
ecmascriptversi on=1.5
w3cdomversion=1 .0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=Syste m.Web.UI.HtmlTe xtWriter
<case match="rv:(?'ve rsion'(?'major' \d+)(?'minor'\. \d+)(?'letters' \w*))"> version=${versi on}
majorversion=${ major}
minorversion=${ minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters }">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

</browserCaps>