carguy84 - 5:07 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

It's not impossible at all. In fact Visual Studio actually makes it quite easy. It even has inline W3C validation. If the programmer is incapable of creating valid code, then it allows invalid code to execute.

Visual studio can make it as easy as possible, but unless you're using 100% custom modules, you won't get HTML that actually validates. The mere fact that even if you turn off viewstate, it's tags are still put in will cause your page not to validate.

That being said, I couldn't care less about my sites validating as long as they look correct in all browsers. Viewstate is very important in multi-front end server enviornments.

If I could change one thing about a Microsoft feature in the web world, I want a better zip handler. If the output cache directive is used, and you have gzip enabled, why can't IIS store the output just like it does with .html, .js, .css...files? Why does it still need to render the page first then zip it up?

Also, it needs a better way of handling content and expiration headers.

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