Comments on: Some thoughts on jQuery http://www.blogfor.net/2009/01/29/some-thoughts-on-jquery/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-thoughts-on-jquery welcome to the blogosphere Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:08:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Derek http://www.blogfor.net/2009/01/29/some-thoughts-on-jquery/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Derek Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:50:10 +0000 http://www.blogfor.net/?p=55#comment-1056 Coming from a background of javascript and DOM maniipulation you can see why ASP.NET initially drove me nuts (and often still does). The insanity of the DOM created automatically by .NET makes creating complex javascript functions a nightmare. The attempt to make web programming behave like application programming in order to make it easier for developers ends up making it a complex mess, and confusing as hell back in the day for those of us who had learned our programming on the web instead of building applications. Don't get me started on "AJAX for ASP.NET"... I've settled into prototype.js myself, as it seems to be a bit more flexible. - dk Coming from a background of javascript and DOM maniipulation you can see why ASP.NET initially drove me nuts (and often still does). The insanity of the DOM created automatically by .NET makes creating complex javascript functions a nightmare. The attempt to make web programming behave like application programming in order to make it easier for developers ends up making it a complex mess, and confusing as hell back in the day for those of us who had learned our programming on the web instead of building applications.

Don’t get me started on “AJAX for ASP.NET”…

I’ve settled into prototype.js myself, as it seems to be a bit more flexible.

- dk

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