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

[Judah McAuley]

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,