That's just wrong. I am an ASP.NET developer and I am ALSO a web standards and CSS fan. I try as hard as possible to keep my code compliant. I don't think it's 100% possible, but I do manage to keep my code at least 90% standards-compliant. The only offenders you can't easily get rid of are the weird ViewState tags (which you can choose NOT to use, if you don't use post-back forms) and .NET's weird FORM tags. I do not use the non-compliant and bloated Controls like DataGrids, and instead output tabular data using Repeaters which allow you to even avoid using tables if you wish.
I think I should write an article on writing standards-compliant .NET code since so many people ask about it and can't seem to find the right resources. Francesco On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:29:08 -0000, "Kornel Lesinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:06:12 -0000, Peter Goddard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've recently had a task to write stylesheet for ASP.Net page and I was > really > shocked how BAD that code is. > > Coder that wrote that didn't have any idea of web standards and he said > that > it's generally impossible to make this code cleaner. > > Is it really? > > Can DataGrids have <th> for headers? > Do labels have to be <span class="label">? > Does it have to insert everywhere? > Does it have to make "javascript:" urls? > > Most asp.net+standards articles describe lengthy and hacky ways to force > ASP > to output XHTML, but maybe there is a simple way just to make it semantic > HTML4 Strict? Francesco Sanfilippo ------------------------------------------- Blackcoil Productions - http://blackcoil.com URL123 Link Service - http://url123.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
