1. No penmanship recognition
2. No stylus, it must be hard to go on an inspection or to a patient’s house and type your notes while you hold the iPad, with a single hand, hand write recognition has been there on tablets for a while.
3. No Flash support.
4. Hard to program on.
5. Censorship by Apple of the apps you are able to run on.
Well, I’m heavily using JQuery now on a web application and I must say I’m very fond of this library.
It’s very easy to use, encapsulates quite a few cross browser compatibility issues so the developer doesn’t have the pain to check what browser the page will be displayed on. The ajax calls ($.get, $.ajax and $.post) work like a charm and the pages can have painless and cool animations and effects.
But, no matter how robust and sturdy a library is, we always need to debug. I must say Visual Studio 2008 is heaven to debug JavaScript code. I just have to put the debugger; keyword in front of the line to create a break point. The IDE shows the iexplorer.exe process and thread ID (you can also chose to debug on FF or your favorite browser). You can review your locals, add to the Watch Windows or just take a sneak peek with Quick Watch.
All the power of strongly type language debugging is now available for the type agnostic JavaScript and believe me, this is priceless when you debug JSON.
Happy JQuery debugging!
Oops, this post was about debugging JavaScript on the partial views in MVC…
Now I remember what I was suppose to comment on:
If you use your Model properties inside your JavaScript code, you won’t be able to put this code on a separate .js file and include it on your main view header or even include it on your partial view. It won’t work.
Unfortunately the javascript code should be embedded along with your MVC markup on your partial view. You see, the rendering of these HTML helpers happen first on the server side before the page is served, while the js include happens after. Maybe MVC will be smart enough to detect these js includes in the future and render any helper content inside the js includes, as of MVC 2.0 RTM, this is not possible.
Done!
I have used ASP.NET for quite some time. I have probably always been lucky that the infrastructure or deployment person always enabled aspx on IIS for me. I use a Windows XP with IIS 5 sometimes or Vista with IIS 7. They do serve aspx pages by default, on XP once the .NET framework is downloaded and installed, there is nothing else to tweak.
On Friday afternoon, I had to deploy to an IIS 6 box on windows 2003, to my surprise, it didn’t serve any of the aspx pages. Even a small Hello World project on an simple label. I missed the happy hour with my colleagues and went home completely puzzle. Why? ASP.NET was already available when Windows 2003 saw the light. To my surprise there was nothing on the event log.
The answer came a few hours later and after few Google queries:
IIS 6.0: ASP.NET Is Not Automatically Installed on Windows Server 2003
1. Open IIS Manager, expand the master server node (that is, the Servername node), and then select the Web service extensions node.
2. In the right pane of IIS Manager, right-click the extension that you want to enable. In this example, this is Active Server Pages.
3. Click to select the Allow check box.
Add a New Web Service Extension to IIS 6.0
To permit IIS to serve content that requires a specific ISAPI or CGI extension that is not already listed in the Web service extensions list, follow these steps:
1.Open IIS Manager, expand the master server node, and then select the Web service extensions node.
2.In the right pane of the IIS Manager, click Add a new Web service extension under Tasks.
3.In the Extension name box, type a friendly name for the extension that you want to add (for example, FrontPage Server Extensions).
4.In the Required files box, click Add, and then select the path and the name of the file that will handle requests for the specific extension. After you select the path and the file name, click OK.
5. If the extension must be enabled immediately, click to select the Set extension status to allowed check box.
6. Click OK to save your changes.
Hopefully Mono will run seamless on Apache one of these days…
