Support For Css Control Adapters Has Landed in Mono svn

Those of you who have been using mojoPortal on Mono will be excited to hear of an important milestone reached in the Mono project. Recently in Mono's svn repository (r100264 or newer) has landed support for ASP.NET CSS Control Adapters.

Thanks to the great work of Dean Brettle for implementing this in Mono! Dean has been involved with mojoPortal from the beginning and is also the author of 2 great projects, NeatUpload and NeatHtml, both of which are used in mojoPortal.

The need for Css Control Adapters arises from the fact that the original ASP.NET implementation of some important .NET controls like Menu and Treeview was less than ideal when first released by Microsoft. The problem was that these controls rendered as nested html tables instead of the more semantically correct nesting of ul and li elements. To solve this problem, Microsoft subesquently released the CSS Control Adapters. Since the Mono implementation of Menu and Treeview mirrored the original Microsoft implementation it also rendered as nested tables. Some plumbing was needed in Mono to support the control adapters and Dean stepped up and took on the task.

Because the mojoPortal css was designed to style nested ul and li elements and not html tables, up until now the menu in mojoPortal did not render or style correctly when running on Mono as shown in this screen shot of mojoPortal running on the current Mono 1.9 release:

menu style without css adapters

and now with the latest Mono built from svn:

menu with css control adapters

So I think the next release of Mono will be very exciting for anyone using mojoPortal on Mono.

Again, huge thanks to Dean Brettle, Marek Habersack, and anyone else who may have had a hand in getting this done!

Update 2008-04-10 1:46PM EST - Dean mentioned that: "Owen Brady (aka Ocean) deserves a lot of the credit.  I used his code to parse and process the *.browser files."

 

Gravatar Joe Audette is the founder of the mojoPortal project and was the primary developer until February 2017.
Posted by mojoPortal Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:25:00 AM Categories: Community Development Site Design

Comments

bob

re: Support For Css Control Adapters Has Landed in Mono svn

Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:34:08 PM

The only thing that I  didn't  like in  MP  was the  publicly usable  menus. That's really  good news. Thank you Dean! My Gentoo doesn't  have an ebuild for 1.9, but I think that recent snapshot will be good to compile & install without portage help.

 

 

 

Richard Bourque

re: Support For Css Control Adapters Has Landed in Mono svn

Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:59:23 AM

There are still some css menu issues.   The menus only work on the first tier.   Second, third tier menus appear as tabs across the top.

Also since the css control adapters started to partially work the Feature Instance Settings -> Roles that can edit content checkboxes no longer work.   This has been verified by rolling back to an earlier version of mono.

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