Browser Incompatibility

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I create web applications in VS 2003 and the .Net 1.1 framework (we haven't
moved the application forward to .Net 2.0 yet).

The application looks great In IE 5.x and greater. But even a simple login
page that only has textboxes look like crap in FireFox and Safari. Since
ASP.Net generates the HMTL (supposedly it detects the browser and generates
the best HTML for that browser) -- why is this problem?

If others have encountered this problem, what have done to solve it?

Bil

[bruce barker]

asp.net does little for browser compatibility except with validators and
ajax.

your site should have been designed with css, and browser comaptiable
markup.

one problem you may be running into with 1.1 is it by default does not
render css/style for browsers other then IE unless you uodate the
browsercaps file.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

WhiskeyRomeo wrote:

I create web applications in VS 2003 and the .Net 1.1 framework (we haven't
moved the application forward to .Net 2.0 yet).

The application looks great In IE 5.x and greater. But even a simple login
page that only has textboxes look like crap in FireFox and Safari. Since
ASP.Net generates the HMTL (supposedly it detects the browser and generates
the best HTML for that browser) -- why is this problem?

If others have encountered this problem, what have done to solve it?

Bil

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Thanks for the reply. When one adds a ASP.Net button or a datagrid, ASP.Net
degenerates the html -- so . . .

What happens if you mess that HTML?

It is even worse if one uses Infragistics (or probably any third party
control). It doesn't appear that ccs or browser compatiblity markup is an
option.

Bill

"bruce barker" wrote:

asp.net does little for browser compatibility except with validators and
ajax.

your site should have been designed with css, and browser comaptiable
markup.

one problem you may be running into with 1.1 is it by default does not
render css/style for browsers other then IE unless you uodate the
browsercaps file.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

WhiskeyRomeo wrote:

I create web applications in VS 2003 and the .Net 1.1 framework (we haven't
moved the application forward to .Net 2.0 yet).

The application looks great In IE 5.x and greater. But even a simple login
page that only has textboxes look like crap in FireFox and Safari. Since
ASP.Net generates the HMTL (supposedly it detects the browser and generates
the best HTML for that browser) -- why is this problem?

If others have encountered this problem, what have done to solve it?

Bil

[Alan Silver]

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WhiskeyRomeo <Wh**********@discussions.microsoft.comwrites

>The application looks great In IE 5.x and greater. But even a simple
login page that only has textboxes look like crap in FireFox and Safari.

This almost certainly means that the (X)HTML and/or CSS are invalid.
IE5.x was the worst of all the IE versions, and IE itself is the worst
of all browsers when it comes to rendering correctly.

Make sure that any (X)HTML and CSS you write are 100% valid, and test
them on a standards compliant browser such as Firefox or Safari. Only
then should you look at them on IE and fix the bugs. If they work in the
first two, then any rendering issues will 99.999% certain be IE bugs (of
which there are thousands).

By the way, IE5.x is so little used nowadays that you shouldn't spend
too much time fighting its plethora of bugs. Test on IE6 and IE7 as they
have the vast majority of the IE users.

--
Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)