It's easy enough to simply code the <script> tags right into the page. But, from an engineering standpoint, I can see why the dev manager wants to keep everything as an ASP.NET control. His people are probably mostly .NET people who use C# or VB.NET .
- Brian > Thanks for the explanation Citrus. I'm strictly a front-end designer, so I > don't really understand the whole .NET paradigm, or why it needs to be a > server-side control. I've already introduced jQuery and several plugins > into > the mix, and the .NET developers love it. I'll try and get a better > explanation from them. > > > Citrus wrote: >> >> >> It's a .NET thing. The ASP.NET paradigm is to write your page in a >> server-side language (usually C#), and the server-side object gets >> rendered into whatever is viewed on the client side. >> >> It would be pretty involved, though, because the plugin is dependent on >> jQuery (and bgiframe, and the Date methods). >> >> The way to do it is probably to create an element (class) for each >> dependency, to be instantiated in the ASP page, and then do some >> exception-handling for when the dependencies are missing. I believe >> that >> there's a way to have it error at compile-time, so you can see right in >> Visual Studio if you forgot to include something. >> >> My C# is pretty rusty, but it would be worthwhile for someone to do a >> "jQuery for ASP" project. I'm not sure that I'll have a lot of time to >> devote to it, but I can kind of see how it would be done. >> >> - Brian >> >> >>>> Looks fantastic, Kelvin! I showed it to our lead engineer who has been >>>> assessing date packages and he said he'd drop his current date package >>>> in a >>>> heartbeat for this one IF someone had built a server-side version of >>>> it >>>> (.NET). So, if anyone takes on that challenge let me know. I long for >>>> the >>>> day when I don't have to deal with the rat's nest of code that the >>>> Peter >>>> Blum date control generates. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks :) I'm curious - why is there a need for a serverside version of >>> this control? What exactly would it do? Is it just so that users >>> without >>> JS could get date picking functionality? What context are you using the >>> date picker in? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Kelvin :) >> >> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/datePicker-v2-beta-tf3637608s15494.html#a10181833 > Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
