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MORE BROWSERS SUPPORT IN
        UPCOMING 2008 R1: SAFARI 3.0 AND OPERA
        9.5
        
       
       

        

        
Realizing high demands for supporting wider range of
        browsers, we have set one of our goals for 2008 R1 that is to support
        more browsers than just Internet Explorer and Gecko-based browsers.
        

        

        
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After a couple months of extensive research, we are
        ready to share about one of our goals for 2008 R1. Our recent research
        indicates that we will be able to support Safari 3.0 (currently in
        Beta) and Opera 9.5 (currently in Alpha) by early next year. According
        to their internal developers, the final version of Safari 3.0 and Opera
        9.5 would be available later this year - so by the time we will have
        released 2008 R1, both browsers should have been widely adopted by
        users.
        
Thanks to our DOMBridge architecture which allows
        different DOM/API between browsers to be unified, all of our components
        -- nearly 20 in total, has been extended to support both Safari and
        Opera. Thanks to our DOMBridge architecture which allows different
        DOM/API between browsers to be unified, we can see robust development
        and faster results because all products can use the same codebase which
        should work on all browsers with better quality which mean less bugs. 
        
Our Pixel-Perfect Rendering architecture which is
        one of our key strength has also been successfully extended to support
        both Safari and Opera. Therefore, for our 2008 R1 products, you will
        see exactly the same box positioning and dimensioning when using any of
        today's modern browsers.
        
This new browsers support is one of the most
        significant leaps of our upcoming 2008 R1 platform. Developers and
        their end users, all at once will automatically receive this privilege
        of Safari and Opera's support after they upgraded their Web apps to
        2008 R1 platform without any code changes or any other efforts. 
        
 
        
       
       

        

        
NEW: PRODUCT
        ROADMAP 2008 R1
        
       
       

        

        
The time has come to announce our recently updated
        product roadmap for 2008 and beyond. 
        
One of the key goals in 2008 as mentioned in
        previous section is to support wider range of browsers such as Safari
        3.0 and Opera 9.5.
        
For 2008 R1 we will have brand-new product targeting
        Scheduling market. The upcoming Scheduling component is planned to have
        very powerful and unique features not available in any other products,
        such as agenda and multiple resources view, as well as out-of-the-box
        integration between calendaring and scheduling. 
        
The next important objective included in 2008 R1 is
        aimed toward providing Silverlight components. We will provide a broad
        range of phenomenally interesting UI components targeting Rich Web
        Application scenarios. As what we have stated in our blog, we will have
        a demo site to demonstrate some interesting features soon. The demo
        site will also be featured in Silverlight home page later. 
        
Our product roadmap is currently only available for
        our existing customer through Developer Network 2.0. To read more
        details and features for our existing customer, you can simply login to
        Developer Network in your dashboard, under 'Announcement' section look
        for Intersoft 2008's Product Roadmap. 
        
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TIPS AND TRICKS: ASP.NET
        AJAX
        Update Panel
        
       
       

        

        
You might encounter the problem that Ajax Update
        Panel cannot update Intersoft's components styles properly. 
        
In fact, our development team has enhanced our WebUI
        Framework in the last few builds to support this scenario. To be able
        to utilize our component in this scenario, you can simply use the
        following code to mark the styles of WebGrid to be updated during AJAX callback: 

        

        grid.AspNetAjaxSettings.UpdateControlStyles = true; 
        
If you are
        interested to learn more about enhancements and new features in the
        latest build or in the previous build, please visit our Support Center, or click on of
        the latest build link from list at the bottom right section of this
        newsletter. 
        
       
       

        

        
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