asp.net
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"...