Why should ASP. NET programmers learn web standards?

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Why should ASP. NET programmers learn CSS at the beginning of the month ?, It attracted the attention of some students. What does web standards mean for ASP. NET? ASP. net Bible ASP. NET 2.0 secrets (a real masterpiece with more than 1900 pages in the original version, the Chinese version is divided into two volumes), and it is found that heroes are always slightly different.

ASP. NET 2.0 secrets the English version is the famous ASP. NET 2.0 unleashed, author stephen Walther is not only Microsoft's MVP, but also because this book won the highest honor of the Microsoft community software legend (software legend), you know, the winners of this title in history are masters such as Richter and Petzold. His position in the ASP. NET field can be imagined.

The previous version won wide respect from the community. However, the author's new version was completely different and re-written. He said: this book is totally different from version 1st (referring to ASP. net secrets, published by China Power Publishing House ). While still drafting the draft, I threw version 1st of the book from the hard drive of a portable computer into the recycle bin ."

Why?

The author explains as follows:

"This version emphasizes more web standards than the previous version. When writing this 1st edition, I don't care about the web standards at all ...... The only thing that requires a link is to make the page run correctly in IE.

"Then Firefox appears. Everyone has to begin to be concerned with cross-browser compatibility, and the best way to create cross-browser compatible websites is to comply with web standards ...... "

Complying with web standards is one of the central objectives of this book. For more details, refer to the book. Or Stephen Walther's article "generate an ASP. NET 2.0 web site using web standards" on msdn.

In addition, there is also an article on msdn magazine (the title translation is better if there are some problems ).

Think about it, Asp. NET 2.0 is the product that Microsoft has begun to embrace web standards. Many new features introduced include master pages, themes, and enhanced CSS support. In fact, Molly holzschlag, former owner of wasp and author of CSS zen garden, was added to Microsoft's ie development team at the beginning of the year, you can also see the messages in this room.

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The author of CSS proficiency is interviewed by digital web magazine.