Is there a document somewhere that summarizes Infragistics' stance on being cross-browser compatible? Or, maybe there's something that discusses "best practices" to creating a cross-browser site.
Here's my issue...
I'm building a new site using the (2011.1) WebDataMenu and WebDataGrid. Quite frankly, I'm disappointed in the their performance in different browsers.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I run my app in Chrome or FireFox, there's plenty of rendering glitches. The menus don't display right or the grid behavior is different. They work great in IE, but as we all know, IE is no longer the only game in town.
I figured that these inconsistencies would have all been worked out in a seasoned commercial product and that the controls would render the same in all browsers especially since I'm only setting standard properties.
I keep reading posts on how to make (read trick) certain controls to render correctly in Chrome. End-users shouldn't have to deal with stuff like this in order to get the product to work as expected.
I bought Infragistics so I can drag a menu control onto a form and create a slick, nice-looking menu by setting just a few properties. This advantage (no pun intended) is greatly diminished if that menu doesn't quite work in Chrome or FireFox without hand-coding a bunch of obscure javascript tweaks.
Look, I understand the intricacies of writing html code that runs in all browsers; it’s a very tough thing to do. That’s why I, and thousands of others, turned to the experts.
Seriously, how are we supposed to know when a Service Release is published? When I go to my downloads page, it just lists a file called, "NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2011 Vol. 2 - ASP.NET Service Release" without any version number or release date.
What am I supposed to do? Download that file every day, just to find that it's still named "NetAdvantage_ASPNET_20112.2055_SR.zip"
How can a bunch of developers sell development tools to other developers in such a careless way? It's just a rude waste of everybody's time.
It's embarrassing for me to tell my client that I'm waiting for an Infragistics service release, but I can't tell when it's published without downloading the same file day after day. That causes my client to (rightfully) lose faith in me and Infragistics.
I'd like to add to this thread that I just discovered another issue with the WebDataMenu in v11.2. Except this is in IE9. I'm not sure if this has been addressed or not in the SR that you mentioned. Any menus that overlap an Infragistics WebTab are clipped. See the screen shot. As soon as I try and select the "Email Log" option that is clipped the menu goes away. So it's an unusable menu item as well as any others that lie below it in the list.
I couldn't test it in Firefox, Chrome, or Safari as the dropdowns don't work at all.
Steve
Thanks for the quick response. Do you have an idea when the next SR is coming out? Also, is there an email alert option when it becomes available?
Thanks, Steve
Hello All,
This issue has been resolved and it will be in the next SR. We have fixed this in our internal builds, if you are not able to wait till the next SR please create a support ticket and request private build that has the problem resolved from this link :
http://ko.infragistics.com/support/submitrequest.aspx as you refer to this post in the support ticket.
Add Safari 5.1.2 to the list as well. It shows the menu but the dropdowns won't show on hover. This is not good.