Best ASP.net Interview Question Ever (Part 2)
Last time, I whined about ASP.net byte bloat. As long as I'm bitching about Microsoft's internet platform, I might as well hold nothing back.
Microsoft doesn't care enough about Internet Explorer. It is the red headed step child of Microsoft's internet platform. MS seriously lost a lot of client side credibility and goodwill by disbanding the Windows IE team for 3+ years after Windows XP / IE 6 shipped and letting the Mozilla / Firefox team catch up and surpass it.
I'm sure killing Mac IE & killing Unix IE didn't help matters either (not that anybody ever used them). Shipping...
Best ASP.net Interview Question Ever (Part 1)
I recently I had a job interview w/ Costco Wholesale in the e-Commerce group. I thought the most interesting question they asked was "If you could change one thing about ASP.net, what would it be". It was a hard question, because on the whole, I'm pretty happy with it. Furthermore, on the whole, I'm pretty happy with the direction that Microsoft is going. However, it got me thinking about what I don't like about Microsoft's internet platform and I figured it would make a great blog post (or two), so here I go.
Viewstate + ClientID = HTML Bloat +...