Hello, I have sent the following in an e-mail to MS, I thought I'd post it
here too, hopefully to discourage some of you to do this.

You can view the article in question at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguidnf/html/cpcongenerating...

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Hello, I'd like to comment on the very poor and inaccessible scripting
habits the Microsoft .NET documentation is encouraging.

The page entitled "Generating Client-Side ECMAScript for Postback"
instructs users to use a link such as:

  <a id="Link" href="javascript:__doPostBack('Link','')">Link</a>

This type of javascript pseudo-URL's are totally non-standard and
will only work in browsers that have scripting support, and have
scripting enabled.

However many, many users do not have this - and
therefore they simply will not be able to submit the form. The entire
page will be broken for them.

A reliable source for internet statistics, thecounter.com, shows that
last month (December 2001) around 12% of users had scripting disabled.
Do you really want .NET-powered web pages not work for that many
people? See http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/December/javas.php

I hope you reconsider this example, and change it to use a more accessible
method of submitting forms. I have recently written an article on this
subject, you can read it at http://tom.vpwsys.co.uk/scripting/submit.asp
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Thanks
Tom