April 1, 2008 - Testing the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Under IE8 Beta 1

We will be using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit for some controls in an upcoming release.

I wanted to see how they would work in IE8, so I tested the controls at http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Default.aspx using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. 

Here are my findings.

Control	Severity	Comments
Accordian	Minor	Fade effect doesn't work
AlwaysVisibleControl	No Errors
Animation	Major	Panel is positioned incorrectly
		The 2nd time the panel is invoked, the Close icon isn't fully visible and can't be clicked
AutoComplete	Major	Dropdown list positioned incorrectly
Calendar	Critical	Webpage Script Errors
		User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
		Timestamp: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:25:45 UTC
		Message: Not implemented
		Line: 2518
		Char: 1
		Code: 0
		URI: http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Calendar/Calendar.aspx
CascadingDropDown	No Errors
CollapsiblePanel	No Errors
ConfirmButton	No Errors
DragPanel	Critical	Webpage Script Errors
		User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
		Timestamp: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:30:29 UTC
		Message: Unspecified error.
		Line: 769
		Char: 25
		Code: 0
		URI: http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/DragPanel/DragPanel.aspx
DropDown	Critical	Dropdown list never appears below the text line as expected
DropShadow	Minor	Opacity setting doesn't work (seems to be 100% all the time)
DynamicPopulate	No Errors
FilteredTextBox	No Errors
HoverMenu	Critical	Doesn't work at all. No menu appears.
ListSearch	Major	Associated edit field positioned incorrectly
MaskedEdit	Major	Cursor not positioned correctly
		Cursor not moved correctly as typing occurs
ModalPopup	Moderate	Modal dialog not able to br dragged
MutuallyExclusiveCheckBox	No Errors
NoBot	No Errors
NumericUpDown	Moderate	Up/Down arrows positioned incorrectly, sometimes overlapping
PagingBulletedList	No Errors
PasswordStrength	No Errors
PopupControl	Moderate	Popup objects positioned incorrectly
Rating	Critical	Doesn't work at all. Click to choose rating is ignored.
ReorderList	Critical	Drag/drop doesn't work
		Single click incorrectly moves item to top of list
ResizableControl	Critical	Unusable. Browser hangs
RoundedCorners	No Errors
Slider	Major	Cannot control slider with mouse
SlideShow	Moderate	Stop button never displayed
		One slide positioned incorrectly
Tabs	Major	Tab not drawn correctly (line under tab)
		Only sub-controls of first tab displayed, other tabs are empty
TextBoxWatermark	No Errors
ToggleButton	Minor	Buttons positioned incorrectly, overlapping text
UpdatedPanelAninmation	Minor	Fade effect doesn’t work
ValidatorCallout	Moderate	Callout dialog incorrectly sized