The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

Chapter 19. USING SPRY TO DISPLAY XML

The ability to manipulate XML data without the need to refresh the web page lies at the very heart of Ajax. It's also the prime motivation behind Adobe's decision to develop the Spry framework. In theory, it's the most exciting development in Dreamweaver CS3. The reality leaves much to be desired, partly because of the accessibility problems that I outlined in Chapter 2, but also because Spry is still work in progress. The original release of Dreamweaver CS3 incorporated Spry 1.4. Only a month later Spry 1.5 was made available on Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/), raising expectations of an update for Dreamweaver. It took a further month before Adobe announced that an extension to update ...