Interesting. I'm replying on your blog. I can say from my experience teaching Spry that most folks who aren't too familiar with JS or Ajax find it quite easy to use. Personally I found Spry a heck of a lot easier to learn than jQuery. Of course, not every style of development will work for every developer.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:19 PM, s. isaac dealey <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray Camden said: >> This discussion was on DW, not Spry, but I've got to stand up for it >> here. I find Spry to be -very- nice to use, and pretty powerful. It >> may not be jQuery, but for getting and displaying AJAX-based data on >> page, no framework can beat it for simplicity (especially for folks >> who may not have a lot of JS experience.) > > I actually wrote a whole article about how much nicer Spry *could* be, > if the authors (Dreamweaver team I believe) had chosen different design > principals, and why it actually doesn't do a very good job of living up > to its stated intent. Or... well on reviewing my blog I've actually > written several articles on that subject... I didn't realize how much > I'd written about it actually... > > http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/10/Spry-is-Inaptly-Named > http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/11/Learning-Curves > > These other two are just about some issues I've run into with it: > > http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/20/Spry-Date-Hints-COLLIDE-With-Dynarch-Calendar-Widget > > http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/5/Spry-Phone-Number-Validation > > Overall I just find it to be highly coupled with a big learning curve. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316671 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
