[thelist] Built in / Do nothing AJAX Support - was Which Free Opensource AJAX Framework is worth thetimeand effort?

[Jose Hurtado]

Judah,

This is really exciting Judah... Adobe and especially Macromedia knows how
to do server stuff, and they could pull out a surprise with Spry... I
definetly like their approach!

Thanks for the link I will explore it further.

Best Regards,

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Designer / IT Professional
Toronto, Canada


On 8/22/06, Judah McAuley <judah at wiredotter.com> wrote:
>
> Adobe is building its own AJAX framework called Spry (
> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/ ) that I was just made aware of
> yesterday. They are going the route of adding on an additional xml
> namespace and adding custom attributes to your xhtml tags that then just
> "work" without having to add on event handlers and such.
>
> While I'm not aware of any particular plans in this area, I'm assuming
> that support for Spry will be included in the next version of Coldfusion.
>
> Judah
>
> Jose Hurtado wrote:
> > Talking about Atlas and the AJAX aware controls that would be there
> already
> > using Windows Vista, I wonder what would be available outside of .Net
> and
> > Microsoft?  Is there anything like that in another framework? And by
> this I
> > mean, another development framework where you get AJAX functionality by
> > either doing nothing or next to nothing, things get "AJAXed" for you!
> >
> > Being able to avoid all the Javascript and still get AJAX support would
> be
> > awesome.  I heard Ruby on Rails has already this support built-in, but I
> am
> > not clear as to how deep is the support for it.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a framework for Ruby, Java, PHP or whatever where
> you
> > would have to do very little or no changes to your code in order to get
> your
> > applications AJAX enabled?  Which are those?  I am sure most developers
> > would love to have something like that and MS is sure to get more
> attention
> > if Atlas is as good as they say it will be.
> >
> > Any light on this subject would be most welcome!
> >
> > Best Regards,
>
>
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