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On 07/11/2007, Jaya Chakrabarti <jayacg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so we're PHP (FAMP) folks with *some* skill in ASP.NET that we choose
> not to use (companies should play to their strengths - ASP.NET is not one of
> ours so this is not a thread about PHP vs ASP.NET unless you want to go down
> that route!). We've been shortlisted for a tender and told that if we were
> only to turn to the dark side (just kidding) we'd be the faves to get the
> job (the odds being one in three if we stick with PHP). Not wanting to do
> the framework a disservice I thought it would be worthwhile exploring
> exactly what was achievable with ASP.NET these days as I've heard they've
> ironed out a number of the issues that some developers have with it.
>
> So the question is: have any of you, oh hivemind that is underscore,
> developed some nice web standards compliant, priority 3 accessible databasey
> websites in ASP.NET that we can point at? If not, do you know of some really
> lovely usable, code-perfect, high profile sites out there (priority 3, web
> standards, ASP.NET yada yada)? Because frankly MySpace doesn't cut it :-).

>From what I remember, ASP.NET 1.0 made it difficult to produce valid
markup, such that you had to rewrite a lot of the form controls
yourself if you wanted valid HTML. ASP.NET 2.0 improved things no end.

I have to ask, though: why AAA conformance? In my experience, AA is
usually sufficient and much easier to achieve in the world of many
different stakeholders* that is the average commercial web project.
Are the clients asking for AAA? If so, do they know what they're
asking?

Tim

* Bzzt - drink!