dev|sushi

I recently checked out the source code written by our in-house web designer for the main page of the Housing and Residence website. To my surprise she had used some tags that I initially didn’t believe was valid markup. I quickly realized how wrong I was, kicked my self for my ignorance and set off to learn all the HTML tags I was missing out on. There are quite a few tags in the HTML 4.01 standard developed by the W3C so really I shouldn’t have been too surprised that I didn’t know them all.

I ran into this issue a couple of weeks ago and have been itching to throw together an article about it. I initially suspected that it was a bug that was causing the problem but now I realize the truth. When you force a page into “Downlevel” mode using the ClientTarget property of the <%@ Page %> tag .Net doesn’t use cookies anymore. Out of the box forms authentication is done using session tracking via cookies and thus you are unable to log in.

Today, for the first time, I used JavaScript in an object oriented way. I must say that I am impressed. The job called for a few parameters and some methods that all operated on the contents of a single div element, so an object to contain it all just made sense.