Hey Dean,

I can't remember exactly what was fixed in that time period but it would have been things posted in the forums, nothing extremely tragic comes to mind. I think the primary reason I shipped 2.2.3.9 was to include 10 new skins. The reason Mono users can't upgrade all the way to 2.2.3.9 is because of the use of Ajax UpdatePanel in the blog. This works with Mono svn trunk, I'm unsure if the ajax bits will be in 1.2.6 but don't think they are in 1.2.5.

I will say that the mono demo site is running 2.2.3.6, but it doesn't work under Mono 1.2.5, I can't login due to an error that I think is a mono bug in that version. Reportedly 1.2.5.1 works. I don't know if Eric has upgraded to 1.2.5.1 on GrokThis.net yet.

I think the upgrade from 1.x mojoportal will likely be challenging though doable, so much has changed. I would try a practice run on a local copy of your site and test it thoroughly. Whatever you do make sure you can get back to a known good state.

Anything I can do to help just let me know.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Cheers,

Joe

ps you may encounter some significant styling bugs if the upgrade succeeds. It can be fixed but might be a pain. The issue is the use of the CSSControl adapters which are not yet supported in Mono (though I have it on good word from Marek that its coming). So the skins are designed to style the ul and li elements as rendered on windows but on Mono the menu still renders as tables and the styling isn't setup for that.

Hi Dean,

Its that there is not yet support fro the CSSControl Adapters. On windows the menu and treeview controls render as ul and li elements due to the adapters but on Mono they render as nested tables due to the lack of support. The bottom line problem is that the skins don't contain css to correctly style the tables, they only have css to style the ul li rendering. So one solution is to look at the rendering on mono and add css styles to pretty it up.

The best solution is if we can get support for CSS Control adapters in Mono. Marek Habersack has told me its planned. If you want to offer help and find out more of what is needed to get it working I can pass along his email address to you, or you may see it in mono list mailings. My understanding is that the CSS Control adapters rely on some browser detection mechanisms which aren't implemented or planned but that Marek had a plan to implement just enough to support the control adapters. I'm sure Marek could explain it better.

I'd sure be glad to see this get working soon so that I can demo mojoPortal on Mono at the MySql conference and not have it look bad compared to another machine running windows. WebParts is the only other thing not implemented in Mono but its easier to live without.
 

Joe