From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T06:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?


On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Matt Pelletier wrote:
> 1. Post-backs
> I have wasted plenty of time trying to work around ASP.NET's postback 
> architecture. For simple apps it indeed will ostensibly work like a 
> WinForm. For anything moderately complex, you can get into a mess of 
> issues when designing controls and components. Blech. I think the 
> entire premise of postbacks is flawed (hopefully I'm not naively 
> soured just by MS's implementation). Rather, relying on a postback 
> paradigm to mimic statefulness is flawed.

For those of us who don't know, care to post a quick explanation of 
what a post-back is? I Googled it but only got a bunch of ASP.NET 
pages. And if I'm gonna read about Microsoft APIs, somebody better be 
paying me.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/