RE: [WSG] Standards and .NET

2005-11-09 Thread gadgetfbi
* Don't use postback. Just give up, it's a badly implemented hack to maintain state in a webpage misusing forms and introducing complete JavaScript dependence. Just because Visual Studio makes it very easy to accidentally use it, doesn't make it ok. Just pretend it was never there. Do you mean

Re: [WSG] Standards and .NET

2005-11-08 Thread Wayne Douglas
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNET2XHTML.asp VS2005 drastically improves this situ. hth :] w Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, Yesterday I spoke with you all regarding issues with using CSS and .NET. Below is the site underdevelopment. I'm told div's are casuing a problem, in addition to

RE: [WSG] Standards and .NET

2005-11-08 Thread Rachel Radford
the best! Rachel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Douglas Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9:12 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Standards and .NET http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNET2XHTML.asp VS2005

Re: [WSG] Standards and .NET

2005-11-08 Thread Ben Ward
A few tips based on my experience of working with ASP.NET 1.1: * First up, consider sticking to an HTML 4 DOCTYPE. It's really not as big a deal as some advocates would have you think ;-) - Critically, if you try and force it to use XHTML and someone accidentally clicks 'Design View' your code is

RE: [WSG] Standards and .NET

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Hempsall
Avoid using the pre-wrapped ASP.NET controls. DataGrids aren't so bad, but you get much more mark-up control by using a Repeater. Similarly, rather than using an asp:label, there's a mark-upless version that doesn't insert span elements. I forget the name, sorry, but it does exist. I think Ben

Re: [WSG] standards compliant .NET modules

2004-05-13 Thread SomeNewKid
The ASP.NET framework does not produce standards compliant XHTML. Hence, no off-the-shelf forum component for ASP.NET will produce valid XHTML. You have four main options when aiming for standards compliance in ASP.NET. 1) Visit www.xhtmlwebcontrols.com and purchase their product. It replaces

Re: [WSG] standards compliant .NET modules

2004-05-13 Thread James Ellis
Hi Surely a .net developer can write their own function to output compliant markup? seems strange that a language forces someone to use inbuilt modules. Cheers James SomeNewKid wrote: The ASP.NET framework does not produce standards compliant XHTML. Hence, no off-the-shelf forum component for

Re: [WSG] standards compliant .NET modules

2004-05-13 Thread SomeNewKid
Subject: Re: [WSG] standards compliant .NET modules Hi Surely a .net developer can write their own function to output compliant markup? seems strange that a language forces someone to use inbuilt modules. Cheers James SomeNewKid wrote: The ASP.NET framework does not produce standards