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Hi All,

Is there any chance of this ??? ie NS 4.7/4.8 showing webforms correctly
..Later versions using BrowserCaps are Ok ..up to a point.

But ..4.8 etc ..
TIA
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Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

Why would you want to support an archaic browser
which is used by .3 % ( 30/1000 ) of clients ?

In any case, filtering for its presence would allow you to
set the browser capabilities to "downlevel", i.e., HTML 3.2,
and a host of other differences.

See :
http://www.yqcomputer.com/

for a list of render differences between downlevel and uplevel browsers.




Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Foros de ASP.NET en Espal
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Hi

Thanks,
I have implemented the Browser Caps code as per slingshot5 into the web.config
this I will do as well... or just give them a redirect to an info "Use IE
5.0 or better" page'
To answer your question.......
Probably because 90% of those "users" of this archaic browser all reside and
work at our university, and Netscape 4.75 is the default provided here.
(I (only) am really an experimental case for them ..iro DotNet)
MS is not really their shop of choice.
Novell is, ..which resulted in some frustrating times writing a WebService
to interface with NDS as opposed to MS ADS, but eventually got it with both
ADS and NDS ..
Feeling sorry for me Yet ??

--
Neal Rogers
University of Cape Town

re:

You don't know how sorry I feel for you... ;-)

You have a lot of resistance to buck against.
Good luck !

btw, the redirect to a "Use IE 5 or better..." page
is only likely to stir up animosity.

I'd, instead, have duplicate files, a main one setup for
the 90% who have the downlevel Netscape 4.75 browsers,
and the other one for the more enlightened ones who use
uplevel browsers.

I know, it's a hassle to maintain, but it's only a one line change :

<@ Page ClientTarget = "downlevel" %>

Then, detecting the 4.75 browser and redirecting
to that page will provide content for them.

You will do much better if you give them content
than if you tell them to climb a tree. ;-)




Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Foros de ASP.NET en Espal
Ven, y hablemos de ASP.NET...
======================

>Why would you want to support an archaic browser which is used by .3 %

Just in the interests of accuracy, .3% is actually 30/10000 (or 3/1000),
not 30/1000 as you typed.

Love from pedantics anonymous ;-)

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

heh, heh... OK.

My fingers have a mind of their own sometimes... ;-)



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Foros de ASP.NET en Espal
Ven, y hablemos de ASP.NET...
======================

>heh, heh... OK.

I sometimes think that mine are about the only part of me that does have
a mind ...




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