Marc Derksen

Use Compatibility to force correct rendering of CSS-decorated tags in IE8

One of the bugs in IE7 is that CSS-decorated links are rendered incorrectly if the link wraps onto multiple lines. This is an example of a link rendered incorrectly by IE7: This example shows the Smartsite iXperion Feedreader Smartlet displaying a link with background image positioned at the top right corner. This problem has been fixed in IE8: The problem is however, that if IE8 chooses to render a page in IE8 Compat view +IE7 standards (which is often the default), it still renders the link incorrectly....

System.Data.OracleClient wil be deprecated with the release of .NET 4.0

The ADO.NET client for Oracle database developed bij Microsoft (System.Data.OracleClient ) will be deprecated with the 4.0 release of the .NET framework. Microsoft advices current users of System.Data.OracleClient  to switch over to an Oracle Client from one of the other vendors. At Smartsite we are using the Oracle Data Provider, ODP.NET, from Oracle: Oracle.DataAccess.Client. In our experience, most bugs have been fixed in the latest releases of the 10g and 11g Clients. Installation of the Oracle...

Smartsite iXperion 1.2 will support Oracle databases

One of the bigger development projects at Smartsite is adding support for Oracle databases to the next Smartsite iXperion release. This project is on schedule and nearing completion. The core CMS functionality has been ported to Oracle and we are now focusing on the add-on modules and deployment. Several of our internal sites are currently running on Oracle and the first customer project using an Oracle database has started. As always, we have put a lot of effort in quality assurance. To guarantee the best...