Commercial Controls can be HUGE!
So I recently started looking into using Commercial controls for my ASP.NET application (I won't name any names yet in case I'm way off base and crazy, I don't want to make them look bad, when it's really me that's at fault). They look great and function well but my little input page of 25k (pre canned controls) is now 130k! I've gone through and disabled viewstate where appropriate and have followed the vendors suggestions regarding making them more lightweight...but it's disconcerting to see that file size discrepancy.
The obvious take away from this is that these controls are providing a better user experience and the cost of size. Now the system this is going to be deployed to is rather burly and has plenty of bandwidth, be even with that the page certainly cannot load as fast as it did before. My question is to you Good Citizens...what is your take on this...does the added functionality warrant a bigger page? Am I too concerned about the HTML size and will HttpCompression save the day and make the whole thing moot?