Atlas for ASP.NET 2.0 is Out!
September 14th, 2005You've gotta take a look at Atlas. It is the ASP.NET answer to Ajax and Scott Guthrie previously stated it would be out in November but they announced during the PDC keynote this week. I have to dig into the examples and see it in action. Apparently there is full functionality across browsers. They showed their examples in MSIE and Safari in the keynote presentation. I hope Microsoft continues to play nice.
[Unfortunately the PDC live examples are not on this site yet, but a note states they are coming soon.]
September 15th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
you should take a look at the comments here:
http://mir.aculo.us/articles/2005/09/15/hello-atlas-auto-complexion
I'm not fully drinking the railer kool aid yet - primarily because it's missing some api's I can only find in Java at the moment - but this guy has done a lot of really nice work. It's a shame MS took liberty with 'stealing' it. I hope he continues the good work, and is not discouraged. I work in academia under cash strapped conditions, and projects like this have a wonderful effect on the quality of the web clients we can develop.
September 16th, 2005 at 8:21 am
In light of this release being marked as Alpha I will ignore any criticism of bugs at this point. I know it was just to demo just for the PDC will an actual release to come in November.
As for MS stealing the code or simply the ideas, my attitude on that has changed for MS due to my issues with Java. If they can centralize the features I hope to use into a consistent set of controls which integrate well in Visual Studio I am happy to see it done. With Java you would be hard pressed to find such useful integration for things like DWR, Hibernate or Spring with the IDE. I want the IDE to assist with using the various frameworks I use, and if that means MS will absorb many ideas in the community to produce something like Atlas than I feel the benefits outweigh the fact that an open source developer was not given direct credit. Apple has done the same... widgets, sherlock, itunes, etc.
September 26th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
ian: come on, scriptaculous did not invent auto-complete. Ever seen a combo box in VB? This is rid.iculo.us.