JoeAudette.com

Skip over navigation

Share This Using Popular Bookmarking Services

Podcast

Statistics

Entries (161)
Comments (399)

Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Monday, January 23, 2006 2:52:57 PM

Previous Post << >> Next Post

Rate this Content

0 Votes

I am so excited about the Web Part Framework. I have been looking into writing my own providers for the Membership and Personalization on top of mojoPortal business objects. This will give me an implementation that works with all the databases supported by mojoPortal (Currently MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite). I plan to rework my existing features to inherit from WebPart so they can get the drag and drop coolness of WebParts. The only thing thats been bugging me is that not all the cool drag and drop stuff is supported on FireFox. My understanding is the functionality is there but some of the UI fun only works in IE. So I was surprised and relieved to see Scott Guthrie's post about how some folks on his team already got that working in FireFox using the Atlas Framework. It also sounds from Scott's remarks that they intended a cross browser solution all along but couldn't get it all done for the release.

The new Menu and TreeView controls are pretty sweet too. I already implemented a SiteMapProvider in the development branch of mojoPortal and have switched to using the new Menu by default, but I also have an option to use the TreeView or the skmMenu we have been using all along.

I have been very happy working in ASP.NET since its debut but I have to say as I get into the 2.0 stuff it is so much better. MasterPages, Themes, nice built in controls for TreeView and BreadCrumbs, WebParts, there is a lot to like about it.

Previous Post << >> Next Post

Feedback

re: Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:19:28 AM Aaron King

We are all on the same opinion about the .NET 2.0's final built in controls. WebPart is awesome, much easier implementation than the stuff that DNN has been using.

Until now Nix users weren't able to use the best web GUI controls that .NET has to offer. So I didn't care about them if my Linux users couldn't use it. I have been catering to the lowest denominator for the past couple of years. Dialup/broadband, ie/firefox, linux/windows decisions have been holding things back. With Mono and .Net 2.0 and Firefox, I'm getting unleashed.

I have a lot more coding to do know that my users can actually benefit from it. But it's fun stuff to try and implement.

re: Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:48:02 AM Asbjørn Ulsberg

Have you seen the HTML code TreeView produces? Well, one swift look should hopefully make you shrud and never use it again. Seriously, it's awful. It's an endless amount of tables within tables within tables with all attributes known to man declared on all elements and it has absolutely no semantics at all. What the output should have been is of course nested lists (UL or OL), but I guess Microsoft didn't read that part of the HTML specification (again).

Personally, I stay away from as many controls in the ASP.NET framework that inherit from WebControl as possible, because this means they either output horrific HTML or that they are bloated in functionality (and thus inefficient). I like the HtmlControls namespace a lot better and try to create stuff myself, inheriting from the appropriate HtmlControl. It would be best to just be able to use Microsoft's own stuff, but they have such poor quality in the HTML code they produce that it's impossible.

Oh, and by the way; this comment form doesn't work at all in Opera. A graceful fallback to a simple textarea would be nice. :-)

re: Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:36:22 PM John

Found this usercontrol on www.smartjungle.com which provides a WebParts control to get AJAX capabilities and complete Firefox compatibility with no extra code

http://www.smartjungle.com

Demos:
http://www.smartjungle.com/Demos.aspx

re: Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:55:18 PM unknown

re: Web Parts will work in Firefox!

Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:32:30 PM unknown

no, they don't

Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:44:09 AM unknown

I have downloaded and installed Atlas and AjaxToolKit...or whatever its name, and the bloody thing still won't work...plus, I have no one to hang at the moment! Shame, really! Please, don't tell me I've done all that for nothing and I'll just have to download that Smartjungle thing...! Could anyone help, please, I'm really desperate! Thank-you!