> While I am already dead-set against using NET for any applications, > you are basically giving the short answer to why no one should use > NET for coding.
Sounds more like you're dead-set against using _anything_ that I would call an "application." If you want to just serve up static brochures, yeah, you don't need to choose among ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, CF, JSP, etc. You just need an HTTPD and a text editor. Webmail is not brochureware, yet nothing in your posts suggests that you are aware that database-driven web applications are not the same as static HTML. Your attempt to demonize ASP.NET isn't even accompanied by any preference for its actual alternatives, and -- news flash -- Dreamweaver and ASP.NET are not competitors. Sorry, but there are Macromedia-supplied Dreamweaver extensions for ASP.NET. Dreamweaver is an IDE, ASP.NET is a hypertext preprocessor. > IE: NET is nothing more than "beefed up" Front Page, except that is > places even more Microsoft specific garbage within the code and > requires NET enabled servers to run on. FUD alert! Do some (more?) reading. Is Classic ASP "beefed-up FrontPage," too? Did you mean "beefed-up FrontPage _extensions_" (which is also demonstrably not true, of course)? Nobody here has argued in favor of trusting a Microsoft-supplied IDE instead of doing hand-tweaking to ensure cross-browser compatibility, as well as the tightest code (which are two different aims). While several have embraced the choice of ASP.NET on the back end, nobody here has spoken out in favor of FrontPage, since _we_ know it's not the same. Your biases seem to make you wish ASP.NET to be the same as FrontPage in order to sweep them both off the table. > Both FRONT PAGE and NET require specific extensions to be running on > the server. Duh, as Darin said, you need separate software to be installed for _any_ hypertext preprocessor (the term for products like PHP, ASP.NET, classic ASP, et al.). Is that really soooo frightening? Hey, if you need everything to be part of the OS, you're on a collision course for ASP.NET, by the way, so you may not want to endorse that too strongly! The easiest preprocessor is old-fashioned CGI, since it may only require a single EXE to be dropped on the box. Yep, easiest -- but also the slowest, and rightfully out-of-date. PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, CF. . . all of these require extensions to your HTTPD to be installed and mapped, since that's the only you're going to get responses constructed server-side before HTML is delivered to the clients. > Both FRONT PAGE and NET require MORE SERVER RESOURCES and MORE > PROCESSING POWER to render the pages. More than what? > Both FRONT PAGE and NET place inordinate lines of extra code, for > all practical purposes, GARBAGE, into the code and Sounds like you don't know what ASP.NET is. > Everything done by both FRONT PAGE and NET can be done both easier, > better, and more cross-browser compatible using currently available > technology, coding software or by actual writing of code the old > fashioned way - using a text editor. You don't know what ASP.NET is. No amount of text editing is going to give you a hypertext preprocessor. > PS: I also refrain from using HTML in all e-mail messages. Plain > text is far superior, carries far less likelihood of spreading a > virus and doesn't get caught nearly as frequently by spam > processors. To be sure. What on Earth that has to do with your choice of hypertext preprocessors is beyond me. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
