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Just for those of you out there that are interested, I thought that I'd share some of my experiences with AJAX Panels in Magic AJAX.

1.  You cannot create / use Magic AJAX panels inside of a repeater.  Or, at very least, I couldn't get it to work.  You can, however, surround the repeater with a single Magic AJAX panel.  This difference might not mean much in your code, but it might.  I had to adjust some things to get everything going, but in the end, I had a solution that functioned.

 
2.  In Firefox 1.5X and 2.0, I've had some difficulty using AJAX Panels embedded into OTHER panels.  This works just fine in Internet Explorer, but causes a full postback to the server in Firefox.

EXAMPLE THAT HAD TROUBLE FOR ME IN FIREFOX (works in IE):

<asp:panel id="bob" runat="server">

    <p>stuff</p>

      <ajax:AjaxPanel id="AjaxPanel2" runat="server" width="100%">

           <asp:Button id="btnPreview" runat="server" Text="Preview"></asp:Button>
     </ajax:AjaxPanel>

    </asp:panel>

<asp:panel id="youruncle" runat="server">

<p>Stuff to display later</p> 

</asp:panel>
 

WHAT WORKS IN BOTH:

 <ajax:AjaxPanel id="AjaxPanel2" runat="server" width="100%">

<asp:panel id="bob" runat="server">

    <p>stuff</p>

    <asp:Button id="btnPreview" runat="server" Text="Preview"></asp:Button>
    

    </asp:panel>

<asp:panel id="youruncle" runat="server">

<p>Stuff to display later</p> 

</asp:panel>

</ajax:AjaxPanel>

Do any of you folks notice similar issues? 

I also noticed a small problem with the panels (Hoping the developer actually checks these forums):

The width is not enforced in Firefox, but works fine with IE. To follow suite, what doesn't work:

 <ajax:AjaxPanel id="AjaxPanel2" runat="server" width="800px">

</ajax:AjaxPanel>

What does:

<div style='width:800px;'> 

 <ajax:AjaxPanel id="AjaxPanel2" runat="server" width="800px">

</ajax:AjaxPanel>

 </div>

For the record I just surrounded everything in the <form> tag with that <div> tag for simplicity but obviously you could put that in each panel for better control.

On a side note, is this project still being worked on I noticed the last update was a while ago ...if not what are the kids using these days?

Great project BTW, 

-nomad311