Why MVC instead of good old ASP.NET? Still not grasping why I should go this route?

Question

I know this question has been asked before and I read all the answers but they still don\'t give me the answers I am looking for. I need something concrete. I volunteered to g

Answer 1

Control over the HTML output - is one thing. All those fancy controls SERIOUSLY SUCK from a SEO point of view.

Plus for COMPLEX forms, the ASP.NET state model is hell, too ;)

Anyhow, an example is your search box... it sucks ;)

I would use MVC like this:

Search is a URL: /search/keyword or /search/keyword/pagenr (like /search/programming/5

Good thing is: I can easily have search results spidered by google - some sites I Know get most hits from something like that.

Is it harder to program than asp.net - depends whether you want efficient HTML or not. THe control model from ASP.NET does not lead to lean defined HTML somehow.

Besides that - MVC is a lot more testable. Unit testing a classical HTML site is pretty impossible, the decoupled model of MVC makes that easier.