Comments on: ASP.NET AJAX is a P.O.S. designed by naive Microsoft-universe programmers.

By: Calisto Mind » Blog Archive » Three quick ways optimize AJAX driven websites in ASP.NET

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:04:33 +0000

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By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:48:49 +0000

I agree. Most web development is just that – Web development and will be open for public use. I developed an ASP.Net site using ASP.Net 2.0. And I am having a terrbile time adjusting it for Safari. Firefox is no problem (minimal tweeking). But it has become a nightmare for Safari. I know of several examples of MS instability already with VS 2008 already (not the beta, but the product to be released for marketing). As an example, if using an AJAX extension or toolkit control, the site gets errors because the controls are not referenced in the web.config as they were in VS 2005, so I have to copy code from a web.config in a VS 2005 project to get it to work. I really like VS 2005 and maybe 2008, but I certainly have a love/hate relationship with MS. With all of their resources, they should never release anything with bugs, but I find them to be the worst about this. E.I, Patch/Hotfix are constant, it is pathetic. I have been a devloper for twenty years and I have yet to have a bug in production. Why? Because of thorough testing!!! It is sad that my standard is higher than the biggest corporation in IT.

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By: Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:37 +0000

“issues in all the browsers, not just Safari”: Can you please drop me e-mail with the details of those issues so that we can get a chance to fix them?

By: ScottGu

ScottGu — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:10:41 +0000

Can you send me an email (scottgu@microsoft.com) so that I can loop you in with someone to help?

Also – have you seen Chris’ post here of common causes for “Sys is undefined” errors: http://weblogs.asp.net/chrisri/archive/2007/02/02/demystifying-sys-is-undefined.aspx

Thanks,

Scott

By: Thomas Johansen

Thomas Johansen — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:57:01 +0000

I agree with you mate! This is one of a few areas of ASP.NET that have been horribly, horribly implemented and have not been given enough testing and love (one other part is the WebPart framework which pretty much only works as intended on IE 6+).
I’ve begun implementing an ASP.NET Ajax framework from the ground up, based on jQuery, for internal company use, but I may release it as an OSS project if enough people want a framework such as this.

Regards,

Thomas Johansen