This document discusses Microsoft's evolving support for web standards and open source software over time. It describes how earlier versions of ASP.NET generated non-standard markup but that ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 produced XHTML compliant code. ASP.NET MVC then provided full control over markup. ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 further improved standards compliance. The document also notes Microsoft's increased support for open source like ASP.NET MVC being open source from version 1, contributions to jQuery, and hosting open source projects on CodePlex. It discusses Microsoft's embrace of open source technologies like Linux, PHP, and Hadoop.

1. Microsoft, Web Standards
and Open Source Software
Mahdi Taghizadeh
http://mahdi.mp
@mahdi

2. Is Microsoft evil?

3. Is there a war?

4. No!
We are a community

5. Microsoft and Web
• 1998 - Active Server Pages
• 2002 - ASP.NET 1.0

6. ASP.NET Markup Generation
• Non-standard markup generation in earlier versions of
ASP.NET
• Lack of control over markup
• Complicated and heavy markup generated by ASP.NET
WebForms Controls

7. ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
• XHTML and Accessibility Standards in ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005
• Standard HTML Markup Code Generation

8. ASP.NET MVC
• Full control over markup
• No ASP.NET Control
• No automatic markup code generation.
• New View Engine: Razor; Goodbye <asp:blahblah />!

9. ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010
• Clean, Standards-Based, CSS-Friendly Markup
• FIXED: Auto-generated ID attributes within HTML make it hard to
write JavaScript and style with CSS
• FIXED: Use of tables instead of semantic markup for certain
controls (in particular the asp:menu control) make styling ugly
• FIXED: Some controls render inline style properties even if no style
property on the control has been set
• FIXED: ViewState can often be bigger than ideal
* Scott Guthrie’s blog post on this: http://mahdi.ws/LeJ6DU

10. HTML5/CSS3 Support in ASP.NET/VS2010
• Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 in June 2011
• Adding HTML5 intellisense and validation to VS2010
• JavaScript intellisense updated to reflect many of the new browser
capabilities such as Geolocation and DOM storage
• Comprehensive CSS3 intellisense and validation based on the
latest specifications from W3C
• CSSCop – FxCop for stylesheets

11. HTML5/CSS3 Support in ASP.NET

12. vNext: ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
• New Bundling and Minification Support
• HTML5 Updates
• Better IDE intellisense
• Better CSS and Javascript editor

13. Microsoft, IE10 and Web Standards
• IE10 Test Drive. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive
• The Web Standards Project’s Acid3 Test
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/acid3

14. Microsoft and OSS

15. Microsoft and OSS

16. Steve Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer”
2001, In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times
#fail

17. Microsoft and Open Source Software
• .NET Framework License has been Shared Source from V1.0
• Microsoft is no longer against Open Source
• ASP.NET MVC source code released to public from V1.0
• Microsoft contributions to open-source jQuery project
• CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting
• Microsoft Openness: microsoft.com/openness
( @OpenAtMicrosoft)

18. Microsoft and Open Source Software
• IronPython
• Windows Azure Services for PHP, Node.js, Java, Apache,
MongoDB, Solr, CouchDb, etc as well as support for additional
Operating Systems (e.g.: Linux) and OSS language libraries for
building cloud applications
• Availability of open source softwares and technologies like PHP,
MySQL, WordPress, Drupal, etc in Microsoft Web Platform
• Funding in open source projects like Orchard, Umbraco, etc.
• Nuget as a centralized package management for open source
.NET developers
• Microsoft and Big Data: Hadoop on Windows

19. Il faut être absolument moderne.
J. N. Arthur Rimbaud
(1854 – 1891)

20. Thank you!
Mahdi Taghizadeh ■ http://mahdi.mp ■ @mahdi