Having just spent the past couple of months learning webforms ASP.NET coming from a PHP/RoR background what you said is exactly what frustrated me. Knowing how

Having just spent the past couple of months learning webforms ASP.NET coming from a PHP/RoR background what you said is exactly what frustrated me. Knowing how webforms tried to warp how the web actually works was truly annoying. I understand why they did it, but it really does not help a web programmer in the long run. And if .NET 4.0 didn't allow you to use ClientIDMode to set your own element IDs I'd have lost it entirely.