Firefox compatibility for VS.net Web apps?

[Andrej Marjan]

Aaron Vegh wrote:

>This is funky stuff, and thanks for your assistance! I'm going to find
>out for sure whether they're using ASP or VB, although I'm pretty sure
>it's the latter.
>
>Here's some examples of broken functionality outside of WinIE. The app
>in question is a scheduling system that allows you to drag and drop
>appointments to different locations in a calendar. It also has a
>capability to bring up a floating "tooltip"-style window when you
>mouse over a calendar item, showing the item's contents. As well, what
>appears to be a standard ActiveX calendar-style date picker doesn't
>work unless in WinIE (or MacIE, by the way).
>  
>

ActiveX files are basically win32 binaries. They're run natively by IE, 
or by (Netscape?/Mozilla?) on win32 with an adapter plugin. They won't 
run on a Mac without some sort of Windows emulation software (like Wine 
on Linux).

This is also why ActiveX is such an enormous security hole: it's native 
binaries running unrestricted on your local box!

>None of the features above work outside of WinIE. Do you suppose that
>these behaviours could be a result of broken adapative rendering, as
>you suggest? Or is there something more at work?
>  
>

Basically the problems you describe seem to have nothing to do with 
ASP.NET and everything to do with the use of win32-only client-side 
programs.

Possible solutions include finding some way to run ActiveX on macs, or 
replacing the ActiveX calendar control with a Java applet or some sort 
of DHTML.


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