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09.26.07
URL Rewrites & The HtmlForm Action Attribute
 By
Mads Kristensen
A known bug in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0 is that the action attribute of a form doesn't respect URL rewrites. Everyone that uses URL rewrites uses one of several mechanisms to take care of the action attribute bug.
Recently it has been quite popular to use control adapters and
.browser files to change the rendering of a form and its attributes. I've never liked that approach because it treats the symptom instead of fixing the problem in a transparent and clean way.
strongOpinion
The use of control adapters and .browser files to alter the output for different clients is just as bad as having separate stylesheet files for IE and Firefox.
Instead of writing cross-browser mark-up and CSS you treat the browser differences as an illness and try to treat it.
The thing is that you don't cure it by using control adapters; you just treat the symptom of not being able to (or don't care to) write cross-browser code.
However, it still has its right when dealing with mobile devices, but not much longer.
The browser in the iPhone or Windows Mobile is becoming so good that it soon doesn't matter anymore.
/strongOpinion
In the past I've used a custom overridden HtmlForm but when I had to do it recently on my job, I thought it was about time to make it better and cleaner.
I very much like the use of a custom form control approach because it is very transparent in what it does and where it does it.
The code
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RewriteForm.zip (320 bytes)
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About the Author:
Mads Kristensen currently works as a Senior Developer at Traceworks located
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads graduated from Copenhagen Technical Academy with a multimedia degree in
2003, but has been a professional developer since 2000. His main focus is on ASP.NET but is responsible for Winforms, Windows- and
web services in his daily work as well. A true .NET developer with great passion for the simple solution.
http://www.madskristensen.dk/
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