The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov

An anonymous reader writes "The author looks at the markup for the new whitehouse.gov site, launched today. It uses ASP.NET and various JavaScript libraries. It suffers from various inefficiencies, most easily remedied. Check the images and techniques used to build the site front-end."

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Re:Maybe we can

[jmorris42]

> I'm not sure what's wrong with a website running IIS, either. Last time I checked, the NetCraft
> top10 uptime list had quite a few of those, which means that they do work.

Quite a few... interesting way to say ONE (#5) for the December report and TWO for November (#6 and #7).

Seriously, ignorant people host on Windows.... or Microsoft's slaves. That's the explanation of sites like Dell.com, they can't piss off Microsoft. You see lots of mom and pop etailers (the ignorant) hosting on Microsoft and big ones who have extensive business relationships with em. Then you see those who Microsoft essentially pay to run their stuff by giving them free consultants and often free licenses to do big conversions so they will have case studies for their PR dept. Have I left out any major classes of Microsoft hosting customers? Oh yea, places like Hotmail that Microsoft outright buys so they can (after years of pain) convert them to their inferior tech. And a few where politics dictates the tech decisions.

Sites where skilled and competent IT people picked Microsoft Internet technology based on it's technical or economic merits? Perhaps you can name one, I can't.