Calipso features
- It works on top of regular ASP.NET Web Forms framework.
- Server controls that seamlessly integrates with a client-side, JavaScript object-oriented API.
- DOM manipulation, AJAX, event handling and other sort of things are built using jQuery.
- It has an integrated CSS and JavaScript dependency management.
- It supports globalization/localization in the client-side coming from the server-side.
- It supports 100% client-side server controls.
- It can compress JavaScript and CSS for you using AjaxMin.
- It supports binding server control's properties to client-side counterparts.
- Client-side JavaScript and CSS dependencies are included in the order defined by the developer.
- Client-side JavaScript and CSS dependencies can come embedded in the server control library or in the file system.
- It's light-weight compared to ASP.NET AJAX.