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Spry update on the way

2008-02-21T02:23:11Z

I'm a bit late in reporting this, but the Spry team blogged about their upcoming 1.7 release of Spry. I'm a huge fan of this Ajax framework, and it looks like some exciting new features are on the way.

Announced already is a ratings widget and function support for displaying data. By "function" support I mean you can now tell Spry to run a function before display data. While it was always possible to munge data before it got rendered, this new support should make it a lot easier to do simpler things, like formatting currency and dates or other tweaks.

Comment from Andre Charland on 2008-02-21

2008-02-21T17:49:40Z

Congrats to the Spry team! I'm very curious to see how this product will evolve the two main things I'm interested in is whether or not it will live up to the promise of being "designer friendly" and how it will inspire other frameworks to have tighter integration with IDEs like Dreamweaver...

Comment from Rich Tretola on 2008-02-21

2008-02-21T19:19:52Z

I think that since AIR guarantees a standard level of compatibility via WebKit and developers will no longer need to worry about browser versions, libraries like Spry and YUI will have a huge impact on AIR development.

Comment from Raymond Camden on 2008-02-21

2008-02-21T19:37:18Z

Hmm, perhaps. I mean, I agree with you that AIR's standard implementation is nice. But you have to know ahead of time if your library of choice works well with that implementation, know what I mean?

Comment from Rich Tretola on 2008-02-21

2008-02-22T00:17:45Z

Right, so if it works in your test environment in say AIR 1.0, you can be certain that any user on any operating system with AIR 1.0 will see your application exactly as you intended it to be.

Comment from FredAtMicrosoft on 2008-02-21

2008-02-22T01:25:25Z

Nice, thanks for the headsup!

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Fred Reckling
Microsoft 2008 Joint Launch Team
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