What do you think? Is it wise to start to use CSS Friendly adapters at this point (2010) with these observations in mind:
VS2010 and .Net4 are coming and may offer something new
MVC is an option if you really want to manage your page layout
Microsoft is not involved with CSSFA
The codeplex project seems to be sleeping along
It's been 4 years since it started
Is there a better way to get control of the HTML emitted by ASP.Net controls? I for one am fed up with wrestling with the failures of browsers to handle the table code properly (e.g. applying classes) yet I am fearful of going down the CSS road when it
seems so stale. What do you think? Your recommendation?
Thanks, that's fairly clear. Will there be an option to continue to use the old table style output? I ask because it would seem that projects would be difficult to upgrade (detailed examination of every page required, especially with regard to CSS?)
All asp.net webforms controls have been fully revised for 4 and support proper standards compliant tableless markup.
I fired up a .NET 4 web application with VS2010 and it seems to me (unless I did something wrong) that the Calendar control hasn't been touched at all (probably since it was written for 2.0 or even older versions). It still has hard-coded inline CSS calls
and auto-postback Javascript that cannot be overwritten (in a few places).
PhilM99
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Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
Jan 12, 2010 03:19 PM|LINK
What do you think? Is it wise to start to use CSS Friendly adapters at this point (2010) with these observations in mind:
Is there a better way to get control of the HTML emitted by ASP.Net controls? I for one am fed up with wrestling with the failures of browsers to handle the table code properly (e.g. applying classes) yet I am fearful of going down the CSS road when it seems so stale. What do you think? Your recommendation?
"css friendly adapter" 3.5 2008 friendly css adapters
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Re: Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
Jan 12, 2010 04:35 PM|LINK
If you are going to convert your project to asp.net 4 then you wont need the css friendly adapters.
All asp.net webforms controls have been fully revised for 4 and support proper standards compliant tableless markup.
If your project is going to stay with an older version then you should still use the CSS adapters.
PhilM99
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Re: Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
Jan 13, 2010 01:17 PM|LINK
Thanks, that's fairly clear. Will there be an option to continue to use the old table style output? I ask because it would seem that projects would be difficult to upgrade (detailed examination of every page required, especially with regard to CSS?)
rtpHarry
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Re: Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
Jan 13, 2010 02:07 PM|LINK
Yes its an attribute that you add to turn on the css friendly formatting.
You can see some pretty detailed info on this at:
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Re: Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
Apr 13, 2010 10:30 PM|LINK
Can I have css friendly controls only with the 4.0 framework and visual studio 2008 or I must also use visual studio 2010?
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Re: Your opinion: Are CSS friendly Adapters dead in 2010?
May 13, 2010 02:47 AM|LINK
I fired up a .NET 4 web application with VS2010 and it seems to me (unless I did something wrong) that the Calendar control hasn't been touched at all (probably since it was written for 2.0 or even older versions). It still has hard-coded inline CSS calls and auto-postback Javascript that cannot be overwritten (in a few places).
Am I missing something? Thanks.