ASP.net not generating javascript for some User Agents

Question

********************Edit 2********************** I figured out the problem... But I don\'t like the implications. I was testing our iPhone targeted mobile application earli

Answer 1

The problem is the default way ASP.net treats unknown browsers... such as the iPhone. Even though it would be nice to assume unknown browsers could use javascript... you can specify what capabilities that a browser has in the section of web.config or machine.config.

Check out http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/ for an updated browsercaps config file for asp.net

Here is an example of a case to match GECKO Based Browsers (Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox, ...)

                browser=Gecko
                
                    
                        type=${type}
                    
                     
                        type=Mozilla
                    
                
                frames=true
                tables=true
                cookies=true
                javascript=true
                javaapplets=true
                ecmascriptversion=1.5
                w3cdomversion=1.0
                css1=true
                css2=true
                xml=true
                tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
                
                    version=${version}
                    majorversion=0${major}
                    minorversion=0${minor}
                    
                        beta=true