SecurityI'm pushing it to say security, but a side-effect of the bandwidth fix is that when everyone in the whole world does a View/Source on your page, they see the almost unintelligible code below. Yes, they can buy a code formatter that will make it look pretty again, but at least admit it's making it more difficult for them? | <html><head><title>My page</title></head><body>We're in "HTML mode" here...<p>I am called temp.asp<p>...and here.</body></html> |
Try it now - View/Source - apart from the source code blocks it is just one long line of HTML. (Actually there is one exception. If you have to output an HTML comment add a \n (newline) after it) It's out there - ASP.NETMy last ditch attempt to persuade you now - ASP.NET. Well it is coming you know, and ASP.NET doesn't allow render blocks that include functions anymore. So this particularly nasty piece of code (IMHO)... <% function DoSomething ( ) { %>
something in HTML
<% } %>
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...now has to be written like this: <script language="JavaScript" runat="server">
function DoSomething ( )
{
Out ( 'something in HTML' );
}
</script>
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I hope you're convinced now? If not, begone! Back to FrontPage with you... Update: This article has roused many sleeping developers and prompted more feedback than usual! Read some comments... | 
