Today I am going to demonstrate how easy it is to integrate a stylish modal prompt. It takes a very little amount of code and can be easily slipped into any web page that you may be working on. The look of it is easily tweaked in a simple CSS file. The triggers to show the prompt is some very basic jQuery.
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Year: 2014
Tricking Out Classic ASP With JSON – Updated
Amendment: Some people have had trouble downloading the aspJSON.asp file from the site where I had found it. You can download the file from me.
Amendment:: Some people were asking for a solution to Mandrill and SendGrid. Both solutions are similar and therefore I selected one to publish. You can contact me if you would like more. See the following: Part II – The Mandrill Experience
Sometimes you get trapped in using languages you don’t prefer. I often find my self playing in the bowels of Classic ASP. Now Classic ASP is not bad, but it is a little outdated and has not really been built upon for a few years. I have recently built some new tools in Classic ASP to compliment an existing tool set; however, I tricked out ASP with JSON.
To do this I had found a wonderful import file written by Gerrit van Kuipers. You can download a copy of the file from: www.aspjson.com. Yes it is version 1.0, but I have not found an issue with it yet.
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DotNet Postbacks Not Working in IE11
Many people are posting the woes of DotNet Postbacks not working in IE11. I too experienced this and remembered that there were app_browser files that could be modified to give the browser further instructions. With a quick google search I was able to find the exact solution that I was looking for. I cannot take credit for it so I will share the original URL from which I got my answer. [ Answer ]
However Here is the code so you do not have to click on the link above:
<browsers>
<browser id="IE11" parentID="Mozilla">
<identification>
<userAgent match="Trident\/7.0; rv:(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(\.(?'minor'\d+)?)(?'letters'\w*))(?'extra'[^)]*)" />
<userAgent nonMatch="IEMobile" />
</identification>
<capture>
<userAgent match="Trident/(?'layoutVersion'\d+)" />
</capture>
<capabilities>
<capability name="browser" value="IE" />
<capability name="layoutEngine" value="Trident" />
<capability name="layoutEngineVersion" value="${layoutVersion}" />
<capability name="extra" value="${extra}" />
<capability name="isColor" value="true" />
<capability name="letters" value="${letters}" />
<capability name="majorversion" value="${major}" />
<capability name="minorversion" value="${minor}" />
<capability name="screenBitDepth" value="8" />
<capability name="type" value="IE${major}" />
<capability name="version" value="${version}" />
</capabilities>
</browser>
<!-- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11,0) like Gecko -->
<browser id="IE110" parentID="IE11">
<identification>
<capability name="majorversion" match="11" />
</identification>
<capabilities>
<capability name="ecmascriptversion" value="3.0" />
<capability name="jscriptversion" value="5.6" />
<capability name="javascript" value="true" />
<capability name="javascriptversion" value="1.5" />
<capability name="msdomversion" value="${majorversion}.${minorversion}" />
<capability name="w3cdomversion" value="1.0" />
<capability name="ExchangeOmaSupported" value="true" />
<capability name="activexcontrols" value="true" />
<capability name="backgroundsounds" value="true" />
<capability name="cookies" value="true" />
<capability name="frames" value="true" />
<capability name="javaapplets" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsCallback" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsFileUpload" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsMultilineTextBoxDisplay" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsMaintainScrollPositionOnPostback" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsVCard" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsXmlHttp" value="true" />
<capability name="tables" value="true" />
<capability name="supportsAccessKeyAttribute" value="true" />
<capability name="tagwriter" value="System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter" />
<capability name="vbscript" value="true" />
</capabilities>
</browser>
</browsers>
How to change IE11 Useragent
I recently tripped on a need to change the Useragent string for IE11 because of an older DotNet control that I was using and was no longer in development. Again this is not my solution, but it worked for me and I thought I would share it with the world. Since it is not my solution, here is the original link [ Answer ]
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Change IE 11 User Agent to IE 10" enabled="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<action type="None" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_USER_AGENT}" pattern=".trident\/[789]" />
</conditions>
<serverVariables>
<set name="HTTP_USER_AGENT" value="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 11.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/7.0)" />
</serverVariables>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
To make this work, you need to add the variable “HTTP_USER_AGENT” to the rewrite module in IIS. If you do not, you will be told to by the error returned in IIS. For instructions for adding the variable click the following: [ link ]
IE11 Thinking it is a Cookieless Browser
Recently I had an issue where IE11 did not want to track cookies turning IE11 into a Cookieless Browser. I learned quickly this is the default behaviour of the browser unless you uncheck a no-tracking option during its setup. You know that you have an issue when you have a url that has hash like injection in it after a user signs in. Since you cannot force your users to turn off the no-tracking option, here is a way I got around it for sites with logins.
In the code below, the key is cookieless=”UseCookies”
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name=".AUTH" cookieless="UseCookies" loginUrl="/" timeout="10000" path="/" />
</authentication>