ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from delivering all possible html on your default page...
UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike...
Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked...
When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...
A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes pause rendering while a script is being downloaded...
Sonu Kapoor over at DotNetSlackers.com has, not only a great site, but also some great AJAX controls. He's always looking to improve his controls and today he stumbled across something. He was working on a prototype where he had a div nested inside of an AJAX tabControl. The div had the property...
ASP.NET ScriptManager control has a property LoadScriptsBeforeUI , when set to false , should load all AJAX framework scripts after the content of the page. But it does not effectively push down all scripts after the content. Some framework scripts, extender scripts and other scripts registered by Ajax...
AJAX websites are all about loading as many features as possible into the browser without having any postback. If you look at the Start Pages like Pageflakes , it's only one single page that gives you all the features of the whole application with zero postback. A quick and dirty approach for doing...
Here's a list of 10 cool ASP.NET, AJAX and web development related articles and blog posts that I have written this year that you might want to take a look: 13 disasters for production website and their solutions Talks about 13 production disasters that can happen to any website any time and bring...