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Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

Sky.High — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:06:33 GMT

safari.browser works perfectly on all my websites, inc those with multi level dynamic styles, thanks alot

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

tcblues — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:03:05 GMT

And what about Chrome?

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

toy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:34:16 GMT

hey all

did anyone ever figger out how to get safari to work WITH dynamic menu styling?
do i have to give that up on safari just cause its safari?

uplevel only worked for me as long as i didnt have dynamic menu styling...

your input greatly appreciated

thanks
toy

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

Danny117 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:12:18 GMT

Danny117:

You can change the base page class then inherit all your pages from it. Search on the web for uplevel safari http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=uplevel+safari+asp.net&FORM=MSNH11

Scan and replace System.Web.UI.Page with your page class in your project.

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

craigbtx — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:22:43 GMT

This is a great solution, "You can change the base page class then inherit all your pages from it"

But I found that this does not work when using code behind pages, or at least I couldn't get it to work.

When I didn't use code behind pages it work right away.

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

Danny117 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:28:44 GMT

You can change the base page class then inherit all your pages from it. Search on the web for uplevel safari http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=uplevel+safari+asp.net&FORM=MSNH11

Then uplevel chrome and safari. Here's my post on it. http://www.gosylvester.com/blog.aspx?id=11

Protected Overrides Sub OnPreInit(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

Dim j As String = Page.Request.ServerVariables("http_user_agent").ToLower()

If j.Contains("safari") Or j.Contains("chrome") Then

Page.ClientTarget = "uplevel"

End If

MyBase.OnPreInit(e)

End Sub

My self I could no longer bear the strain of the 12k bytes the asp.net menu was pushing...

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

craig1376 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:34:46 GMT

I had the same problem. The following worked for me:

if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("AppleWebKit") > 0)

{

Request.Browser.Adapters.Clear();

}

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

suniltauro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:26:50 GMT

Wow!! It works for me too .. thanx a lot michielvoo .. very easy way rather than hitting all the pages.

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

Grum — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:43:12 GMT

This has saved me hours of work thanks michielvoo - it works for Chrome too!

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

nolazabal — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:01:19 GMT

i just notice using the Page.ClientTarget = "uplevel" will create problems for google bots when indexing your page, any alternative solution for this?

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

EnricoFermi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:06 GMT

In let's say a menu that you have inheriting from asp menu and this issue has been observed.

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnInit(e);

            //HACK: Microsoft's Safari menu adapter is not good at all
            if (this.Adapter != null)
            {
                Page.Request.Browser.Adapters.Remove(typeof(Menu).AssemblyQualifiedName);
            }
        }

This won't have the disability of removing wanted browser adapters either. I also suggest a safari.browser file as described above for efficiency, but this will execute if you have a shared dll or something and you are worried about others forgetting that file. In other words, if the safari.browser file is there, this.Adapter would be null.

This should work for all browsers because it will always remove the adapter if it is found. You may also try placing this in global.asax or somewhere else more useful.

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

mfrimu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:48:22 GMT

works for me (App_Browsers) safari.browser

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

kbeeveer46 — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:34:50 GMT

michielvoo:
Hello,
maybe I can help you all with this issue as well. What I did to enable the asp:menu for Safari was to add a file called safari.browser to the App_Browsers folder. The contents of safari.browser are as follows:
<browsers>
  <browser refID="safari1plus">
    <controlAdapters>
      <adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.Menu" adapterType="" />
    </controlAdapters>
  </browser>
</browsers>
Basically the refID matches a browser id in the original browser configuration files for the .Net framework. In our custom .browser file we override the control adapter settings for the asp:menu control for this specific browser.
There's one catch. Safari will crash when the browser window is too small to contain all the items in the menu and you hover over then out of the menu. I can not confirm this is true for Safari in general, but I have consistently seen this behavior on a Mac with OS X 10.3 and Safari 1.3, so be sure to test this case. This might be the reason that Microsoft decided to render an alternative menu for Safari.
Let me know how this works out for you, I'd appreciate any feedback on this solution. Thanks!

I just wanted to let you know (even though this is a very old thread) that you saved me so much time. Your solution fixed my problem perfectly. I had the same problem as the OP. There's tons of functionality in the .browser files that I wish I knew from day one. They have fixed so many of my Safari issues.

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

brotherned — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:33:29 GMT

Check out this link. http://hirentechie.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/aspnet-menu-control-in-mac-safari-browser/

I have my menu in a user control. I put this in the Page_Load of the user control and it works in Safari.

if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("AppleWebKit") > 0)
        {
            Request.Browser.Adapters.Clear();
        }

Re: Safari browser and asp:menu

craigbtx — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:53:51 GMT

I have not verified this but......

THERE'S ONE CATCH. See below.

THERE'S ONE CATCH. Safari will crash when the browser window is too small to contain all the items in the menu and you hover over then out of the menu. I can not confirm this is true for Safari in general, but I have consistently seen this behavior on a Mac with OS X 10.3 and Safari 1.3, so be sure to test this case. This might be the reason that Microsoft decided to render an alternative menu for Safari.

Basically the refID matches a browser id in the original browser configuration files for the .Net framework. In our custom .browser file we override the control adapter settings for the asp:menu control for this specific browser.

Also for those who are using a StaticPopOutImageUrl and are experiencing a Spacing issue with Firefox and Safari, use a CssClass for the StaticMenuItemStyle for padding (Don't use the StaticMenuItemStyle's HorizontalPadding property)