Totally unqualified response here, but in my experience, we have built sites both with and without the FORM (runat server) tags and haven't had any problems with those that don't.
So, to kill viewstate entirely, ... just don't include it! The only thing we've found so far (other than any user controls wouldn't work, but that's a given) is that the "Edit in Canvas" feature doesn't work without the form tags --- but that is perhaps a bonus in our opinion since it doesn't work correctly most of the time, especially due to our heavy use of Razor which doesnt' benefit! We get lots of confusion about this and would love to just disable it entirely.
Can I disable ViewState in Umbraco 4 and what impact will it have?
We have a request to disable or compress the viewstate and we are working with Umbraco 4. What impact will that have?
Totally unqualified response here, but in my experience, we have built sites both with and without the FORM (runat server) tags and haven't had any problems with those that don't.
So, to kill viewstate entirely, ... just don't include it! The only thing we've found so far (other than any user controls wouldn't work, but that's a given) is that the "Edit in Canvas" feature doesn't work without the form tags --- but that is perhaps a bonus in our opinion since it doesn't work correctly most of the time, especially due to our heavy use of Razor which doesnt' benefit! We get lots of confusion about this and would love to just disable it entirely.
Best of luck to you!
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