Nathan Levesque

Spry 1.6 has been released!

OK, almost a week late posting about this, but regardless Spry 1.6 has been released by adobe as well as the Spry home page getting a brand new (and much more professional looking) makeover. This version of the framework has some new widgets as well as being a more compressed version of the library.

The Spry team mentioned on their blog that they weren’t able to fix all the bugs and add all the new features that have been requested but are continuing their work on to Spry 1.7.  They also mention a new updater for Dreamweaver CS3 that will allow for this and future Spry updates to be very easy.

Don’t forget that this is still a prerelease version of Spry, although it has still been put to use on a few popular sites and is still worth looking into and using if the functionality that you want works for your target users.

The Spry Team Annouced the Upcoming Release of Spry 1.6

Some interesting news features listed there. By the sounds of it it’s going to be another prerelease. I would be hesitant to use it in commercial projects but have played around with it in the past and found it to be a good framework. Of course, that made me start thinking of working on trying to integrate Spry into ASP.NET as custom server controls. I think it’s possible and I plan to look into it some more this weekend. The only problem I could see is updating it with subsequent versions of Spry, but that primarily depends on whether Adobe decides to make changes in the required markup and JavaScript calls.