ASp.Net site barely functional in Netscape Browser

[Neal]

Hi All

I developed a site in ASP.Net 2003, which is great in IE 5.5 + but a lot of
our users at the University use Netscape and it just don't work in Netscape.
Hyperlinks (webform) align themselves left to right, half don't function even.

Listboxes and Data Grids and Calendar controls... don't even render.
ie Useless .

Any help on this would be appreciated.

?How would i, in script detect the browser being used (have done it in the
code behind page, but does'nt display in a textbox when in Netscape. (4.8 x
or better))
and redirect the user to a IE download or even kick IE off on their machine
with the uRL to my site.?

TIA

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

A lot of browser compatabiltiy issues can be solved by having the correct
browsercaps entries.

Have a read of this, it explains a lot.
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/050504-1.aspx

--
Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

"Neal" <Ne**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi All

I developed a site in ASP.Net 2003, which is great in IE 5.5 + but a lot
of
our users at the University use Netscape and it just don't work in
Netscape.
Hyperlinks (webform) align themselves left to right, half don't function
even.

Listboxes and Data Grids and Calendar controls... don't even render.
ie Useless .

Any help on this would be appreciated.

?How would i, in script detect the browser being used (have done it in
the
code behind page, but does'nt display in a textbox when in Netscape. (4.8
x
or better))
and redirect the user to a IE download or even kick IE off on their
machine
with the uRL to my site.?

TIA

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

[Juan T. Llibre]

Read :
http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/

and modify your web.config according to this code:
http://slingfive.com/pages/code/brow...aps_spaces.txt

That will allow you to detect Netscape browsers, which, in turn,
will get assigned System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter to write HTML
which Netscape will be able to understand.


Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://asp.net.do/foros/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español
Ven, y hablemos de ASP.NET...
======================

"Neal" <Ne**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi All

I developed a site in ASP.Net 2003, which is great in IE 5.5 + but a lot of
our users at the University use Netscape and it just don't work in Netscape.
Hyperlinks (webform) align themselves left to right, half don't function even.

Listboxes and Data Grids and Calendar controls... don't even render.
ie Useless .

Any help on this would be appreciated.

?How would i, in script detect the browser being used (have done it in the
code behind page, but does'nt display in a textbox when in Netscape. (4.8 x
or better))
and redirect the user to a IE download or even kick IE off on their machine
with the uRL to my site.?

TIA

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

[Neal]

Thanks...BUT

It seems these config fixes are for Netscape 7, Mozzie 5 etc

but For Netscape 4.7 and 4.8 ???

must admit the reading of the article from 4GuysFromRolla is awesome, what
every programmer new to asp.net needs to know,
but that highlight aside,
I still have a problem..

Anyway to just force or suggest a user swops browsers ?
AND download IE6 etc? or Netscape or .. at least a compatible version
which should now be provided for in the Web.config thanks to Rob Eberhardt.
--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town
"Juan T. Llibre" wrote:

Read :
http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/

and modify your web.config according to this code:
http://slingfive.com/pages/code/brow...aps_spaces.txt

That will allow you to detect Netscape browsers, which, in turn,
will get assigned System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter to write HTML
which Netscape will be able to understand.


Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://asp.net.do/foros/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español
Ven, y hablemos de ASP.NET...
======================

"Neal" <Ne**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi All

I developed a site in ASP.Net 2003, which is great in IE 5.5 + but a lot of
our users at the University use Netscape and it just don't work in Netscape.
Hyperlinks (webform) align themselves left to right, half don't function even.

Listboxes and Data Grids and Calendar controls... don't even render.
ie Useless .

Any help on this would be appreciated.

?How would i, in script detect the browser being used (have done it in the
code behind page, but does'nt display in a textbox when in Netscape. (4.8 x
or better))
and redirect the user to a IE download or even kick IE off on their machine
with the uRL to my site.?

TIA

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

[Neal]

By the way,..

The site is , if you're interested, (my first at that) at
"http://uctweb.uct.ac.za/splusttable/"

any comments or ideas for improvement would be welcome, anything which
improves it, my knowledge etc.. very much wanted.

Thanks

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town
"Neal" wrote:

Hi All

I developed a site in ASP.Net 2003, which is great in IE 5.5 + but a lot of
our users at the University use Netscape and it just don't work in Netscape.
Hyperlinks (webform) align themselves left to right, half don't function even.

Listboxes and Data Grids and Calendar controls... don't even render.
ie Useless .

Any help on this would be appreciated.

?How would i, in script detect the browser being used (have done it in the
code behind page, but does'nt display in a textbox when in Netscape. (4.8 x
or better))
and redirect the user to a IE download or even kick IE off on their machine
with the uRL to my site.?

TIA

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town