On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the cross browser experience pretty good for XHTML (Strict) pages?
IE is still really bad about being quirky. I have even been bitten by several bugs in sequential builds of IE. Crazy stuff.
The biggest advantage ASP.NET has over classic ASP and PHP is the ideas of Code-Behind, where you have a clean separation of your code and the presentation code. You have to do quite a bit to approach this in PHP or ASP. Also, managed post backs / page states are quite nice.
I wrote a mod_perl framework to handle these type of ideas. It uses XML at its core and translates this data into the appropriate output (HTML, Excel, PDF, etc.) with a theme (Put a standard header/footer on it, etc).
I still have some security concerns with PHP, so I have never gotten into using it very much.
When it comes to the speed differences on your machine between Firefox and explorer - that is something I've never understood. This is not related to the server at all, right? It's a rendering engine issue, right? The server serves up the pages at the same speed no matter what, right? Like I said, I'm not sure, and I've always wondered about this issue.
Speed differences between browsers is mostly the result of the client machine. It can also be an issue of how the document is formed. If you write your document correctly it can start to be rendered before all the data is retrieved. I haven't done benchmarks on this lately, but it used to be that even newlines and whitespace would effect page loading.
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