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I think this was really a great effort by Jan and Thomas. Well done guys.

hasn't changed my life :(

awful music, awful presentation, nothing special -> downvote

Excellent work! Worth to have a look, though it doesn't change your life much. ;-)

Well, the idea was that we would hopefully be able to communicate our USPs to such an extend that people would start using Gaia Ajax Widgets....:S
I see others too have commented that maybe THAT part really wasn't such a success after all, but anyway that was the idea...

With a title like this you are misleading people who actually use Ajax in their work and trick them to watch some stupid asp.net video

Well, I am sorry, that was definitely not my intention, I just assumed most people would recognize the website image and at least the name at the website (Gaia Ajax Widgets) and recognize it to be a Gaia Video...
(Which then obviously would mean it's Ajax with ASP.NET or Mono)

But if you think what you just saw was an "ASP.NET" video then I'd encourage you to see it one more time and maybe get some coffee before you see it this time or maybe pull your monitor out of the sun or stop your car or whatever it is that was making it difficult to understand what you just saw...

The Video has about as much to do with ASP.NET as a car has to do with WHEELS...!
Sure a car uses wheels, so does airplanes and wheels don't have stereo systems nor does it have AC or Engines etc...

This Video has about as much to do with ASP.NET as a blog (utilizing HTTP and therefor TCP/IP) about Dogs has to do with the TCP/IP protocol... ;)

ASP.NET (OR Mono) is the "TRANSPORT system" for Gaia, nothing more, nothing less...!

Thomas

You're right that did change my life because I can never get that time back. Boring!

Nope, not interested. I already have all that in jQuery - easy to use, all these uses and more, and free and open source!!!

Gaia is Open Source, and jQuery is a JavaScript library, a pretty good one too, but to compare Gaia and jQuery is like comparing apples and oranges. Or maybe put in a better way; compare Assembly Programming to C#...
Gaia abstracts AWAY JavaScript 100% in addition to that it binds to the server side WebControl class hierarchy 100%. It makes it possible to NOT write JavaScript at ALL but to develop only in C# or VB.NET. Kind of like GWT though we don't "compile bytecode into JavaScript" we rather bind to existing API implemented in JavaScript....

Hmmm... I'm interested in ajax, but I'm not interested in paying for it.

It's jQuery for me. Good support, excellent speed, and lots of plugins for it.

That's about the only argument for not using Gaia that exists... ;)
And jQuery is an excellent choice for doing Ajax, but it demends 10 times as much from you as a developer since first of all you need to learn jQuery, second you need to learn JavaScript. Third it makes business logic "leak" into the client, often too in the forms of JavaScript...
All those are 100% avoided in Gaia (unless you really TRY HARD to "accomplish" those)

Also tap water in Egypt is free, why do people pay for bottled water then...? ;)
(Don't misunderstand me I totally respect jQuery and other JavaScript "frameworks", we use ScriptAculous and Prototype.js in Gaia ourselves, but I don't find them abstracted ENOUGH for app developers to be able to use them... ;)
JavaScript Ajax libraries are for Ajax "Hijax" developers, not for application developers... ;)

Beside Gaia IS free if YOU develop free software! (GPL)