Adobe’s Spry

Written by bthomas

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Adobe's Spry

The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks.

 But what IS Spry, exactly?

What is the Spry framework? The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks. The first release of the Spry framework is a preview of the data capabilities that enable designers to incorporate XML data into their HTML documents using HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of JavaScript, without the need for refreshing the entire page. The Spry framework is HTML-centric, and easy to implement for users with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The framework was designed such that the markup is simple and the JavaScript is minimal.

This could be really useful on many different fronts. We'll have to define a new way of delivering advertisements too. Right now, you have page impressions, or times an ad has been delivered to the viewer. Most companies use a script that delivers the ads on page load and that ad lives on the page until it's delivered again. With this new framework, info will be updated without loading a new page, which means the old way of delivering an ad would be obsolete. We'd have to devise a system where you'd consider the ad to be "viewed enough" and load the next ad, simulating another "page view". How long would that be? 2 minutes? 

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