Did I ever tell you about the guy that spent the better part of a day making his site’s layout entirely em based …
This place is everything a weblog should not be.
Alan Turing would sooo beat Linus Torvalds in arm wrestling and technologies no different.
A horrible and misguided idea. I've personally never even liked the RJS/JavaScript generation stuff in Rails, and it’s actually well designed, thought out, and quite simple. “Managed Ajax” takes it to a whole new level, building from the assumption that “JavaScript is the new assembler,” and moves most types of interaction logic to the server. Reality seems to be moving in the exact opposite direction. Do yourself a favor and get real comfortable with JavaScript.
Microsoft missing the point with regards to “standards”? Inconceivable! Every time I read stuff like this I wonder if it’s intellectual dishonesty or if the folks over at MS are really this ignorant. You have to lean toward dishonesty here, I think.
“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and ‘Jeopardy’ comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”
$50 fines for anyone who displays his or her… wait for it… no. now.. wait for it…. UNDERPANTS! AHHHHHHH!