Friday, July 04, 2003 - Posts

Blogging the .NET-way

The last year I have been busy scripting PHP applications for the web and also created a Blog for myself and friends and I was wondering if there were already some (open source) web logs available on the web.

One I found out about, was ASPNetBlogs ofcourse (and that is the one used here also) but my first impression was like I got the ASPNet Community Starterkit in front of me. Same admin interface.

I also fear that this source here is not available for customization, 'cause I guess many community members would be willing to discuss about features.

Another one I found (and that one is en an early stage), is called BlogX which you can find on www.simplegeek.com , customizable and with a xml database.

If there are more projects like that I would be gratefull if you let me know.

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Browser detection ...

The browser detection code in ASP.NET detects recent versions of Netscape as being down-level browsers, so the controls will render HTML 3.2 with all the &%* inline stuff like tags etc.

<browserCaps>
  <result type="System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities, System.Web,
Version=1.0.3102.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
  <use var="HTTP_USER_AGENT" />
TagWriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
</browserCaps>

That forces ASP.NET to render HTML 4.0 all the time, regardless of the browser. This can be the best choice but not always. You could write a browsercaps section which detects only Netscape 6.x and/or 7 or Mozilla 1.* and tell it just to use HTML 4.*.

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