Atlas : What are your experiences so far?

[jendeacott]

Hi,

I've recently been testing the Atlas framework and wanted to see what everyone else thought about it.

I'm thinking about implementing it heavily on a new project and wondered if anyone had come across any problems in a production environment.

After coding Ajax manually it does feel very easy to get going. Which could be why I'm concerned that there's a problem around the corner!

Cheers,




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[shaddow]

I havent used Ajax in more then some simple stuff, but i've used Atlas in some projects i had.
So far so good since i've mostly used server side Atlas.

It looks verry promissing to bad that it lacks a complete documentation yet.

So small projects, custom controls and such worked fine using server side Atlas.

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[BoulderBum]

The best and probably most used feature of Atlas is going to be UpdatePanels (dynamically regenerated sections of a Page updated via AJAX). I'd actually call that part of Atlas stable (I use it for a smaller web app currently in production).

Some of the tools are pretty useful, too (I like the AutoCompleteExtender in particular).

There are some issues, like incompatibility with Safari, immature client-side event engine, lack of client-side events raised by current control suite, etc., but if all you're looking for is the functionality of the UpdatePanel or something I'd say go for it without hesitation!