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Recent announcement by Adobe will reinforce our commitment to supporting standards-based programming models for creating and delivering engaging digital experiences.
As you know, Ajax is helping to drive much more engaging and interesting experiences on the Web, and inspiring developers and designers to take a fresh look at the applications and content they are delivering. The popularity of Ajax is a testament to the rich Internet applications (RIA) movement and we are positioning ourselves to support that with tools and frameworks that work with and enhance Ajax.
Today, Adobe released the alpha version of the Spry Framework for Ajax on Adobe Labshttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/.
We also announced earlier this week that Adobe has joined the Open Ajax initiativehttp://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19623.wss.
Spry Framework for Ajax
The Spry Framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library that web designers can use to build additional functionality in their web pages for a richer end-user experience. As an HTML-centric technology, Spry allows web designers to use existing skills to design rich pages with Ajax without having to learn new languages or adopt a full programming model.
Spry is focused on a specific target audience – web designers – and the need that the web design community has for a light-weight framework. Spry is very flexible, and as, such it can be used in conjunction with other Ajax frameworks or the Flash family of products.
With Spry, developers can simply infuse your HTML with dynamic data. Adobe intends to integrate authoring support in future versions of our tools to further improve the experience for web designers and developers.