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It doesn't seem anything like webforms. This looks much more like most other server side templating systems. It just couples the standard HTTP verbs to the te
by keithnz 9y ago
It doesn't seem anything like webforms. This looks much more like most other server side templating systems. It just couples the standard HTTP verbs to the templates.
Webforms was this whole other beast that had UI controls connected to the backend which heavily relied on synching state between the backend (through page loads) and front end for user actions on those controls. It did mean you could write a lot of your UI code in your server side language ( C# / VB.NET ).
- hungerstrike 9y ago> UI controls connected to the backend which heavily relied on synching state between the backend... This sounds like React with SSR or so-called Universal Web Apps.
- Glide 9y agoSo that feels like saying ASP.NET AJAX was way ahead of the game. And in some ways it was. And in other ways you had this massive __VIEWSTATE hidden input field that would have to be sent in order to recreate state. But I will say, it was very cool technology at the time.
- p2t2p 9y agoThe closes thing I think would be a Java Servlet + request forwarding to a JSP page. But I thought we've moved on from that.