I am returning to Phoenix today after teaching ASP.NET AJAX in Dallas, Texas. Thanks to everyone who attended the class!
About 50% of my students were from the same company, and were already using AJAX technologies. One in particular had experience with Prototype, and made some excellent observations regarding the two platforms.
A concern raised about the Microsoft AJAX implementation was the total size of scripts downloaded to client. One of the suggestions provided by Microsoft is to enable compression in the web.config file as so:
<scriptResourceHandler enableCompression="true" enableCaching="true" />
However, the following snapshot is taken from a forum discussion that makes it appear that compression is only enabled for IE7?
This raises the question: Are there other alternatives for managing script size issues in ASP.NET AJAX that will work across the major browsers used today?