Adobe Releases Spry to Help with AJAX Programming
Adobe has released a free preview version of their new programming framework, Spry. Spry enables you to incorporate XML data into your HTML using what you may already be familiar with: HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of Javascript, without requiring the entire page to refresh. Yes, that’s AJAX for any of you keeping score at home.
What makes Spry different than other AJAX frameworks out in the wild, is that Adobe is attempting to make Spry very HTML-centric and easy to implement so designers who are comfortable with working with HTML, CSS, and some Javascript can take advantage of AJAX in their work. Because of all this, Spry is intended to work well with Dreamweaver and other Web editors.
I haven’t had time to really dig into Spry yet. But if and when I do, I’ll try to post my take on the whole thing.
You can go and check out Spry yourself by heading over to Adobe Labs. Be sure to try the demos Adobe has posted and if it looks like something that could help you out, download Spry and start trying to incorporate it into your work. Adobe Labs has also posted a Spry FAQ and started a discussions forum just for it.
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