Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Road Map
Microsoft has come out with a road map for the Ajax side of ASP.NET, which has been simplified to be just: Framework and tools in one versioned package; Ajax components will be released separately on Codeplex.
There is a bold goal at the beginning of the document (why is the doc a PDF/.doc and not just HTML!!!):
Make ASP.NET Ajax the first-class choice for all Web 2.0 developers
They are going to be catching up with richer CSS selection and DOM manipulation:
JAVASCRIPT:
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$query(“textarea.rich”)
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.addHandler(“focus”, function(e) {
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Sys.Debug.trace(“focused into “ + (e.eventTarget.id || “?”));
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})
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.setStyle(“width”, function() {
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return (document.body.clientWidth – 10) + “px”;
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})
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.create(Contoso.UI.RichTextBehavior, {
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showToolbar: true,
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fonts: [“Arial”, “Times”, “Courier”]
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});
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We have got some animation going on:
JAVASCRIPT:
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$query(“.sprite”).animate([
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new Sys.Animation.FadeIn(300),
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{
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“style.backgroundColor”: “#ff0000”,
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“style.fontSize”: “2em”),
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duration: 500
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},
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new Sys.Animation.FadeOut(300)
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])
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);
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What else?
- Accessibility
- Drag & Drop
- Client-side Controls and Behavior
- Interoperability: OpenAjax hub support
- Tooling, tooling, tooling
