>>I am trying to decide if I should use ASP.NET Web Forms (WF) or ASP.NET Web Pages (WP) for rewriting my web site (static information, not connection to a database).
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>>I have read in a tech forum online that the difference between WF and WP is that WF does not give you good control over the generated markup. But it appears that for WP I have to learn two new technologies, Razor and WebMatrix.
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>>My goal of this project is to learn HTML5 as much as possible and (later) jQuery and incorporate these technologies into my site.
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>>Given the goal of HTML5 and jQuery, what do you recommend to use, ASP.NET Web Forms or Web Pages?
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>Why not just use HTML5 and jQuery?
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>What does WP or WF buy you aside from a learning curve that won't be useful for anything later? A static page in HTML5 is easy and for cosmetics you can use simple jquery stuff. Multiple browser issues get handled (by jquery)
I was thinking the same earlier, after I started looking at various ways of doing it in ASP.NET. I guess the reason I was looking at ASP.NET is that it is the only web development application I have on my PC.
Thank you for you input.
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