Spry Question

I see that the new DW will have Spry capabilities. I am
rather ignorant of

what is involved with Spry other than the fact that it
enables sites to

utilize AJAX.



What I'm wondering is if something has to be installed on the
web server and

if so, will this be possible in most hosted environments?
Right now, I

can't install any components on our web server. And if we
have to wait on

hosts to install this, how practical is it that the spry
functionality will

be available in the real world until later this year?



--

Brandon


http://www.presentationsdirect.com



Spry Question
%26gt;I see that the new DW will have Spry capabilities. I am
rather ignorant of

%26gt;what is involved with Spry other than the fact that it
enables sites to

%26gt;utilize AJAX.



Spry is yet-another-AJAX-library.



AJAX libraries tend to come in two flavours:



- front end UI enhancements

- back end asynchronous calls



The former is just javascript, so is completely independant
of any server

technology.



The latter is javascript + some back-end scripting, so would
be dependant on

the flavour of scripting it uses.



AFAIK, Spry is mainly the former...just UI enhancement.



-Darrel





Spry Question
Brandon wrote:

%26gt; I see that the new DW will have Spry capabilities. I am
rather ignorant

%26gt; of what is involved with Spry other than the fact that
it enables sites

%26gt; to utilize AJAX.

%26gt;

%26gt; What I'm wondering is if something has to be installed
on the web server

%26gt; and if so, will this be possible in most hosted
environments?



Nothing needs to be installed. Spry can be thought of as
behaviors on

steroids. It's driven entirely by JavaScript, which is stored
mainly in

external files. However, some of the files are quite big,
adding about

65KB to a page. You can see demos of Spry on labs.adobe.com.



--

David Powers, Adobe Community Expert

Author, ''Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8'' (friends of ED)

Author, ''PHP Solutions'' (friends of ED)


http://foundationphp.com/