Hello, an objective and general point of view on atlas,
half way threw my latest project, I decided to convert to atlas...
It all seemed to be exactly what I was looking for... The cascading drop down
lists were gonna make life so much easier... The collapsable panels add a new
lok to the pages, saving me precious space... And so on: so many features in
atlas that seemed to be missing from .net... (especially those number only
textboxes: finally less javascripting)
After a while I had cascading drop down lists populated from the database,
inside a collapsable panel, resizable textboxes, etc...
And I have to mention this forum has been a HUGE help. Thanx! :P
So all that is the good side of atlas. Now for a bit of negative, but please
take it as constructive critisism, and maybe try to do something about it...
In the end of my project, I had to gradually remove most of the atlas features,
going back to the old look, because of load time: my pages would need about
2-3-4 seconds (which is very long for a user who is already clicking all over
the place, wondering why nothing is happening, but when page is done loading all
his clicks are registered after all)... Mainly because of the drop down lists...
So, my main advice to improve atlas, is looking at those load times, adding for
example features to let you control precisely at what time things get loaded
(load the drop down list on click ? a property like: load = "[onmousover,
onmouseout, onclick, etc]", same for panels: loadcontents on
UnCollapseClick, you see what I mean)
It would be good if you manage to improve the overall load time of all these
features... In the end, I used very few of the features, but they sure added
something positive.
8/10, go microsoft!
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hello.
well, have you set debug to false in the compilation element and made sure the
compression module is being used? by doing this, you should see a small delay on
the 1st request; others requests will only take a while if you're sending lots
of data from the web server.
btw, just one small note (i couldn't resist): less javascript isn't something
good! specially if you're speaking of web pages!
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