Anybody knows if .NET applications work in Macintosh

[hasu]

Will .NET applications work in Macintosh's Safari browser?

 

[tkdkid]

Well if it's an asp.net application, then I don't see why it wouldn't, since the app is really only delivering html to the browser.

If it's a winforms app, then no, it won't work because there is no .net framework download for mac. Although there are several projects under way to move .net to other platforms, that's not being done by MS, of course, so it's hard to say whether any of those will work or not.

 

[hasu]

Yes my question is, will asp.net applications work in Mac browsers like Safari?

IE may be more than just a W3C spec compatible browser. I was wondering if MS is using any of those non-standard features to support .NET generated HTML. If that is the case it might not work properly in other browsers and platforms.

 

[notfred]

The only way to know if a webpage is going to work in a browser is to try it. Find a site developed with .NET and see if Safari has trouble with it. I don't know exactly how much HTML asp.net generates itself and how much it leaves up to the programmer. I really doubt there'd be any prolems with it, though.

 

[tkdkid]

Try the ibuyspy programs from MS, they use asp.net.

http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=42

 

[hasu]

Thank you...
I will try ibuyspy tomorrow, that's a good idea (I have to do it from somewhere else, I do not have a mac yet)

 

[oog]

the controls in asp.net use the user agent string to determine what kind of html to send to the browser. it is possible to tweak the html sent by each of the asp.net controls, and it's also possible to tell the page to always send the same html regardless of the browser, but in general, if it doesn't recognize the user agent, it'll send "simpler" html.