Firefox

Does anyone know if Firefox rendering for HTML reports has been imporved in Katmai RS?

Michael

Did you try installing SP2? We made some fixes there. If there is a specific report that isn't working, you could post it to http://connect.microsoft.com. We don't have anything major planned for 2008.

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Brian,

My matrix report still comes out very narrow (just a few pixels) per column, even with SP2. Is there a way to avoid this besides putting transparent gif's in the column?

Michael

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Are you using the ReportViewer control to view the report? Or are you using Report Manager?

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Actually, I'm calling the report through a web service, and having it render the HTML directly.

Michael

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Hi Michael,

We did address the issue you described in Service Pack 2 of SQL 2005. The fix required that we output slightly different HTML for IE vs. FireFox. When looking at the report through the ReportViewer control, all the appropriate user agent information is sent to the server so that the renderer can return the proper output. However, when rendering reports via the web service there is nothing that sends the user agent -- the solution is to do it yourself.

You should add the DeviceInfo parameter "UserAgent" and set the value to "Gecko". This will tell the renderer to emit FireFox HTML.

Best regards,

Chris

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Ah! Perfect. I'll give that a try. Thanks for the tip. I didn't see it in the instruction manual.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried that, and the result was a little better, although most of my borders did not display, the column width for the first two columns was off, and for some reason, the page brought my Firefox browser to a sluggish standstill, the kind you'd expect if you were viewing a 25MB HTML page. I can send you the before and after versions if you'd like.

Michael

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Hi Michael, yes I would like to see the output that you are getting. Can you send me the HTML files?

Thanks,

Chris

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Yes, I will e-mail them right now.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried sending you the files to the e-mail listed in your profile, but my server said "Sorry, I couldn't find any host named online.microsoft.com.". What is the best way to get you the files?

Michael

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Hi Michael, that's weird... try removing the "online." part and try agian.

Thanks for your patience,

Chris