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.