Comments on: Why I Like Spry

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:38:48 +0000

Depends on what you want to achieve, Michael - I think Spry and the new ColdFusion 8 AJAX tags offer solutions for almost all needs a normal AJAX application will need. However, if you need to customize application behaviour in highly specialized ways (e.g., control particular animations, transparencies, etc.) then something like Dojo, Prototype, or MooTools might be a better choice.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:16:36 +0000

so now there is a dojo 1.0 and spry 1.6 do you still think it’s a better method ?

I am looking at both at the current time, Dojo seems to be a little more comprehensive but far more work to get the job done. Spry seems to be a little more straight forward. but I have only been looking at them for a week now.

By: ashwin

ashwin — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:27:55 +0000

I haven’t tried that combination myself, Najier. You might want to check the Spry forums to see whether other people have gone that route.

By: Najier

Najier — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:30:03 +0000

Do u have an example of how to use both Dojo and Spry together?

By: Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:30:04 +0000

Hey Sam, don’t forget that in cf7, if you use returnType=”xml”, CF will NOT wddx-ify your result.

By: ashwin

ashwin — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:45:00 +0000

Well said, Sam! As a workaround, you could use a CFM to generate your output, which would be a good deal easier and cleaner than constructing an output string inside a CFC - all you need to do is stick CFML inside and around your JSON/XML. If you really need output from a CFC, perhaps ColdSpring is your friend; add an output formatter advice to your CFC functions that will turn your CFML types in XML/JSON.

By: Sam Curren

Sam Curren — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:06:08 +0000

I wish we had a way to specify returntype encoding for remote CFC calls. WDDX isn’t bad, but a JSON option would be nice, or better yet, the ability to specify a function that does the output formatting, so that we could define our own XML formatting function, and then use it to format the output of many remote methods.

By: Teddy R Payne

Teddy R Payne — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:34:28 +0000

Spry in a very simple approach is the ColdFusion for AJAX. Spry is creating approachable AJAX code that will help bridge the gap between structure language people and the design communities.

Spry is an exciting opportunity to really get ColdFusion centric people into yet another avenue to create immersive web experiences.