Re: ASP vs ASP.NET

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:59:00 -0500

I knew this would come back to haunt me. :-)

I was searching microsoft.com. I've had quite a few problems
with XP over the last few weeks, not so much XP problems,
but Microsoft changed some things about Permissions with SP2
it seems. And I wanted to get IIS 5.1 working once again.

I agree most of the time you will get redirected to the proper
page but for some reason, that particular day I was redirected
to a new page, which in turn redirected me back to the original
redirecting page. And there was enough of a time lapse there
that it didn't crash Mozilla nor FireFox. Maybe Microsoft's
website is more oriented for Internet Explorer than it is for
Mozilla or FireFox. I wish I had kept a copy of the problematic
link.

As far as DEAD LINKS go, just open any MSDN article
from December 2001 issues of MSDN. These links sometimes
redirect and sometimes give a default DEAD LINK page. So
in effect what's happening is Microsoft has a DEFAULT DEAD
LINK page that is displayed and you don't get the 404 Page
Not Found message and in effect... there are no dead links.

I disagree though. There ARE dead links... I could list a thousand
if I wanted to spend all night copying and pasting... straight from
a 2001 issue of MSDN...

http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/refov.asp

That particular link might have existed in 1998 or 1999. Time stands
still inside the articles they have written. Even though they break the
links, the articles STILL apply today just as they did in 1999, for
the most part.

Most of the tools I am working with are tools dated from 1998.
:-)

And I don't know what I was searching for but perhaps it was an
API name... InternetOpen or InternetConnect, because I was and
is having a problem with FTP through Internet Explorer and other
browsers and I'm getting a feeling that FTP through an application
is using InternetOpenURL. I was doing some searches for:
OnMouseOver and mouse_event as well... so no telling.

--
Jim Carlock
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"Ray Costanzo [MVP]" <my first name at lane 34 dot commercial> wrote in 
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I'm not sure what microsoft.com site you're visiting, but I have to say that
I've always been quite impressed the how rare it is that I come across dead
links on a site that literally has millions of files...
Ray at home
"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> 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).

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