August 2007 Entries
I realize the following won't have many working examples. If someone would like a working example of what the heck I'm talking about. Feel free to ask, and I'll create a few. In the application I'm working on, I had a situation where I wanted to show/hide a div tag to conserve screen real estate. Pretty simple to do. However, using CSS with relative positioning I quickly ran into problems with the section being shown overlapping frames and objects beneath it. I needed to increase the size of the...
I was having troubles a month ago with .net reporting the Treo 650 Blazer browser as not being mobile. After a little research I thought the app_browsers and the brower.config files were going to be a good send. If you haven't worked with browser.config files, you can basically define the user agent string you want to match on and set how you want the properties to return. For instance, in my case the blazer browser from the palm was not returning as a mobile device. So I could change how the browser...
Since I've been developing for mobile devices lately, I've needed to test what the site does based upon what browser is hitting it. I've found a need to make my web browser report the User Agent from the Blazer browser or any other browser for that matter. There are quite a few ways to do this. Luckily a co-worker happened to show me the User Agent plug in for Firefox. It's called User Agent Switcher and lets you switch out the reported user agent of your firefox browser at will. Remember, this of...
Currently I'm doing some mobile development. I've noticed lately when trying to format pages with textboxes that the textbox was ignoring the width property. The Treo 650P and Treo 650W were both exhibiting this behavior. Then I realized that firefox also had this happening, I just hadn't really cared that much until I started needing to manage my screen real estate on mobile devices. I did find a few solutions. Setting the width with CSS or setting the columns property. eg. <asp:TextBox ID="PlayerHandicapValue"...
Next thing you know and I'll be simply posting IBTL This is going to be a bit of an experiment for me. I mainly only want a blog to record the little problems and workarounds I find that I need to do in C# and asp.net. I don't imagine that I'll be formatting it very nice, and my grammar and spelling are atrocious. So enjoy. I've found so many of the solutions to problems I have on blogs, that I thought it woudl be nice to contribute back. Even if it is a pathetic attempt...