[FX.php List] [OT] Two days with Spry

[Dale Bengston]

Bob,

Spry looks like it's worth taking a closer look. Perhaps Adobe can  
redeem itself with this! Thanks for bringing it up to the list.

Dale


On Jul 20, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Bob Patin/Longterm Solutions wrote:

> This really isn't off-topic, since many of us are interested in  
> using Ajax for our web apps, but so as not to offend...
>
> I've spent the last 2 days working with Adobe Spry, after seeing a  
> demo at Devcon.
>
> I haven't done any FX integration yet, but that's the easy part...  
> the big thing for me was to get into it, start designing some pages  
> with Ajax, and see what I could come up with.
>
> I rebuilt my website, adding several Ajax elements; the link is here:
>
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>
> Since Spry integrates with Dreamweaver, and since I'm a longtime  
> user, it was really easy to add some elements once I got started. As  
> you'll see, the Accordion menus on the left are a Spry widget, and  
> the fade effect uses one of the Spry effects library elements. On  
> the SOFTWARE/Contract Creator page, you'll see a collapsible panel,  
> which took me about 15 minues to add to the page. The cool thing is  
> that you can select a widget in Dreamweaver, move the DIV to the  
> spot on the page where you'd like to use it, and you're good to go.  
> A little CSS fiddling with color and so on, and it's done.
>
> Now that I've done this, I'm going to dive into JQuery and see if I  
> like it better; Spry's certainly easy to use, and does most of what  
> I'm going to be doing.
>
> I also took Jonathan Stark's iPhone demo and rebuilt it to show data  
> from one of my databases; it was built using Prototype, but I didn't  
> get into editing any of the effects he used to build the pages... if  
> anyone wants to see it, let me know.
>
> So my thoughts about Spry at this point: it doesn't seem to have as  
> many widgets as JQuery does, although this is only after 2 days. I  
> suspect I'll find more in JQ, as I know a few of you loyal JQ users  
> will tell me.
>
> Anyway, thought some of you might want to see what can be done in  
> not much time w/ Spry.
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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