ASP.NET 2.0 / 3.5 / AJAX support for browsers other than IE

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Hello,

I am a rookie web developer and faced with an important decision of choosing
the development platform and language for a brand new software my company is
about to build.

Whereas I am leaning towards ASP.NET simply because of my familiarity with
C#, a more important factor of compatibility comes to mind. The big question
is how ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and MS AJAX technology support Mozilla Firefox and
Safari.

I guess I am not looking for specifics as to which control or functionality
is supported and which is not (I will appreciate them though), but an
approximation of whether ASP.NET is the best platform to use when it comes to
playing with other major browsers.

Thank you in advance for any feedback.
VR

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

They all non-ie browser just fine. Since the ASP.Net server controls render
HTML, css, and javascript it's fairly cross-platform. The ajax library is a
client-side javascsript library, it just has server-side functionality to
aid the generation of the client-side events.

That said, one of the main problems most developers face cross-platform is
simple design issues. These are essentially the same for non-ASP.Net sites
as you need to craft your basic HTML and CSS in such a way that it will work
cross-browser.
--
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

"[e-mail]" <VR*******@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Hello,

I am a rookie web developer and faced with an important decision of
choosing
the development platform and language for a brand new software my company
is
about to build.

Whereas I am leaning towards ASP.NET simply because of my familiarity with
C#, a more important factor of compatibility comes to mind. The big
question
is how ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and MS AJAX technology support Mozilla Firefox and
Safari.

I guess I am not looking for specifics as to which control or
functionality
is supported and which is not (I will appreciate them though), but an
approximation of whether ASP.NET is the best platform to use when it comes
to
playing with other major browsers.

Thank you in advance for any feedback.
VR

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Mark,

Thanks for the post. I was really hoping to hear something like that :)

Could you recommend a good book and/or other resources on the subject
cross-platform compatibility? I'd love to get a chance to learn on the
mistakes of others :)

Thanks,
VR

"Mark Fitzpatrick" wrote:

They all non-ie browser just fine. Since the ASP.Net server controls render
HTML, css, and javascript it's fairly cross-platform. The ajax library is a
client-side javascsript library, it just has server-side functionality to
aid the generation of the client-side events.

That said, one of the main problems most developers face cross-platform is
simple design issues. These are essentially the same for non-ASP.Net sites
as you need to craft your basic HTML and CSS in such a way that it will work
cross-browser.
--
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

"[e-mail]" <VR*******@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:31**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello,

I am a rookie web developer and faced with an important decision of
choosing
the development platform and language for a brand new software my company
is
about to build.

Whereas I am leaning towards ASP.NET simply because of my familiarity with
C#, a more important factor of compatibility comes to mind. The big
question
is how ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and MS AJAX technology support Mozilla Firefox and
Safari.

I guess I am not looking for specifics as to which control or
functionality
is supported and which is not (I will appreciate them though), but an
approximation of whether ASP.NET is the best platform to use when it comes
to
playing with other major browsers.

Thank you in advance for any feedback.
VR

[Scott Lloyd]

Microsoft built ASP.Net and the AJAX extensions with compatibility in mind.
Features built using something specific to modern browsers will even degrade
gracefully when possible (like async postbacks converting to full
postbacks).

Scott Lloyd
Lloyd Software

"[e-mail]" <VR*******@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:31**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello,

I am a rookie web developer and faced with an important decision of
choosing
the development platform and language for a brand new software my company
is
about to build.

Whereas I am leaning towards ASP.NET simply because of my familiarity with
C#, a more important factor of compatibility comes to mind. The big
question
is how ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and MS AJAX technology support Mozilla Firefox and
Safari.

I guess I am not looking for specifics as to which control or
functionality
is supported and which is not (I will appreciate them though), but an
approximation of whether ASP.NET is the best platform to use when it comes
to
playing with other major browsers.

Thank you in advance for any feedback.
VR

[Wolfing]

On Dec 18, 3:59 pm, "Scott Lloyd" <[e-mail]:

Microsoft built ASP.Net and the AJAX extensions with compatibility in mind.
Features built using something specific to modern browsers will even degrade
gracefully when possible (like async postbacks converting to full
postbacks).

Scott Lloyd
Lloyd Software

"[e-mail]" <[e-mail] in message

news:31**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello,

I am a rookie web developer and faced with an important decision of
choosing
the development platform and language for a brand new software my company
is
about to build.

Whereas I am leaning towards ASP.NET simply because of my familiarity with
C#, a more important factor of compatibility comes to mind. The big
question
is how ASP.NET 2.0,3.5and MS AJAX technology support Mozilla Firefox and
Safari.

I guess I am not looking for specifics as to which control or
functionality
is supported and which is not (I will appreciate them though), but an
approximation of whether ASP.NET is the best platform to use when it comes
to
playing with other major browsers.

Thank you in advance for any feedback.
VR

I don't know, but just using some of the 2.0 AJAX controls in the
tookit without any changes, and I found that they would work in IE but
not in Firefox. Even with the standard AJAX controls, for example, I
spent hours trying to figure out why the login control wasn't working,
and suddenly I thought about trying the page in IE... it worked. I
hope they fixed those things in 3.5.