Re: ASP vs ASP.NET

From: Rick Strahl [MVP] (rickstrahl_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:18:28 -1000

Do you even understand the words that are coming out of your mouth?

Sheesh...

Convert a Web site/page to XML...

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"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uhIhLoszEHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I am not agreeing or disagreeing with anything you said about Microsoft,
> because that has almost nothing to do with my question. My question was
> asking what other people's opinions were as to their preferences and
> advantages/disadvantages between ASP and ASP.NET were. I will let you
know,
> however, that I think Microsoft's website is one of the most poorly
designed
> sites I have ever seen, and many of my friends agree. Maybe if we get
lucky
> they will improve it if they ever decide to convert it to XML, since they
> have been doing a lot of work on XML technologies (although I'm not going
to
> get my hopes up!).
> -- 
> Nathan Sokalski
> njsokalski@hotmail.com
> www.nathansokalski.com
>
> "Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:OKHnQ%23qzEHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I'll give a counterpoint.
> >
> > 1) Take a look at the speed on Microsoft's own website.
> > 2) Take a look at the broken links, missing pages, and the
> > common mis-use of redirection.
> > 3) Microsoft ABUSES redirection.
> > 4) In all their abuse of redirection, they still have broken links.
> >
> > Realize these points...
> >
> > 1) Microsoft HAS the FASTEST computers in the world.
> > 2) Microsoft HAS the FASTEST networks in the world.
> > 3) Microsoft EMPLOYS the most SKILLED people in the world.
> > 4) Microsoft BUILT the webservers they use.
> > 5) There is NO EXCUSE at Microsoft (they have alot of problems).
> >
> > AND WITH everything they know, ask yourself if www.microsoft.com
> > runs as fast as it could. And if it doesn't run as fast as a webpage
> > should, what is the biggest limiting factor? Could the Microsoft
> > employees do a better job with php or coldfusion or even with
> > ASP.Net ?
> >
> > --
> > Jim Carlock
> > Post replies to newsgroup.
> >
> > "Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23iMXC%23pzEHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I was recently looking at a page about transitioning from ASP 3.0 to
> > ASP.NET. (The page I was looking at is located at
> > http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/041601-1.shtml ). It looks to me
> > like
> > they are taking away what has always seemed to me like the beauty of
ASP.
> > I
> > always viewed the beauty of ASP as giving you the ability to fill in the
> > dynamic areas without the need to change your HTML layout techniques.
But
> > ASP.NET seems to be trying to make you replace all HTML elements with
> > ASP.NET code. For example, on the page I mentioned, notice how ASP.NET
> > code
> > is used to create the submit button even though the submit button does
not
> > have any dynamic areas. Also, when initially designing a page, I have
> > always
> > preferred to create it with HTML to make it look the way I want and then
> > replace the dynamic areas with ASP. And just out of curiosity, for
anyone
> > who might know, will the "View Source" look the same? Because this is
one
> > of
> > the primary tools to make sure the code is producing what I want, I need
> > this to look the same as it would using ASP. Does anyone else have an
> > opinion on whether ASP.NET is really better? Even though I have not yet
> > learned much about coding in ASP.NET, what I have seen makes me lean
> > towards
> > ASP 3.0.
> > -- 
> > Nathan Sokalski
> > njsokalski@hotmail.com
> > www.nathansokalski.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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