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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by recursive on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:50AM (#25508262)
AjaxContentPanels or something to that effect. Those things were a nightmare. At the time, asp.net pretended to be stateful by bundling up the entire state of the page into "ViewState" and passing it back and forth client to server. Getting that to work with those panels was more work than just ajax-ing the content and injecting it with jquery.

In the Microsoft-verse, this might also draw some comparisons to the more modern server-side blazor.

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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by toddwprice on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:56PM (#25509106)
<UpdatePanel /> see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.up...

I used it 13 years ago. It was fancy.

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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by mmastrac on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:21PM (#25508674)
Oh yeah. I remember that ViewState could reach 100s of KBs on a page if you weren't careful. It was a huge juggling act between keeping state in your input fields vs ViewState.
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