A comparison between Folks and ASP.NET Ajax

Folks - A small, simple and fast Ajax framework.

Eduardo Dias — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:05:49 GMT

The Folks Ajax Framework provides a clean, easy and fast way to build Ajax enabled web applications in

re: A comparison between Folks and ASP.NET Ajax

Bad Speller — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:04:55 GMT

I meant sails...

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DudeSP — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:21:29 GMT

Once Folks becomes more than alpha software run these tests again.

I'm sure adding features will take the wind out of its sales.

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edurdias — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:01:19 GMT

Hi Bart,

I agree with you that ASP.NET Ajax has a lot of features that Folks don't. But the main focus of Folks is to be simple and small.

Very good idea. This test was made with Firebug reports. I'll be posting the Fiddler payload report soon.

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Bart Czernicki — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:40:25 GMT

A real good test would be how much is the AJAX payload vs. the Folks payload. That is a huge drag on first time loads especially when IIS compression is off.

Seeing a stat like this is nice, however I remember seeing things like this for MySQL vs. SQL Server where math operations where 1,000 faster than SQL Server 2000 (this was 2002 or so). However, MySQL was about 1/10 of the features SQL2000 did and was slower in most of the other areas.

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edurdias — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:04:03 GMT

I agree with you that 1k records is more than an user want in a GridView.

Both versions work with the GridView generated response. The GridView has the PageSize property limited to 100 records, creating the paging.

The response time is relative to fire the PostBack, Create the result list with the respective length by ObjectDataSource and render the GridView with Paging if necessary.

I wanna show only the reponse time of logic processing in both frameworks.

Hope be more clear. :D

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AndrewSeven — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:40:06 GMT

Are you saying that both versions are working on the html that is generated by an asp:GridView ?

1000 records is probably more than a user will want on a page.

You might want to show some data related to the effort of implementing each approach.

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edurdias — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:44:07 GMT

Hi Andrew,

I choose the GridView exactly by features. This benchmark has a GridView with paging associated to an ObjectDataSource. The paging was not computed here, but I can test it too. :D

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AndrewSeven — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:53:40 GMT

When I choose GridView, I do it for the features, not for speed considerations.

How easily will you be able to add paging, sorting, and a delete button with a server side handler.

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