From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T08:56:34+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?

Stephen Haberman wrote:
>>Actually, from poking around MSDN, I get the sense that
>>postbacks are mix of XMlHtppRequest calls (or the like)
>>and DHTML.
> 
> 
> Microsoft does have some docs on remote scripting, but "postback" in ASP.NET
> terminology has nothing to do with Ajax technologies.
> 
> In ASP.NET, "postback" means someone GETs a page and then POSTs the form
> back to the same page. It simply means the user has POSTed back to the same
> page they were just viewing.
> 
> The purpose (or perhaps just a side effect), is that ASP.NET can then
> serialize the page object's state into a hidden form field behind the
> scenes.

<snip/>

Thanks for the explanation.  This is handy to know if I ever get around 
to more C#/ASP.net coding.

James