I have immense respect for Douglas Crockford, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with him... Douglas has written on a number of occasions that he prefers plain script tags, with no attributes. The argument goes like this: "This script block uses the language attribute. This was a feature that was...

I've been seeing more and more authors lately dismissing partial rendering (a.k.a. UpdatePanel) as a poor man's version of Ajax, something you should only choose if you're too lazy to implement "true" Ajax. I think that view not only has a slightly pedantic ring (isn't laziness one of the most...

When we built the history management feature in ASP.NET Futures, we spent considerable time experimenting with the different behaviors of the main browsers out there. The problem with such a feature is that it has to rely on a number of hacks because browser vendors basically never anticipated this need...

I wrote a short column in Dino Esposito 's latest MSDN Magazine article to introduce two new features that we will ship with the next version of ASP.NET Ajax . The features will enable you to declaratively instantiate client-side components and to build data-driven HTML from simple templates. http:/...

Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of an...