A good perspective, Dan. I'll most likely follow that path. I especially agree on the "component" aspect of packaged solutions...they tend to work well at first, but as requirements for functionality grow, code has to be manually tweaked and I end up writing much of the code myself.
It was that way when I first learned ColdFusion. Thanks, Rick -----Original Message----- From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 8:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Rick, >So the question, becomes... spend a lot of time now learning to implement >jQuery >and "Web 2.0" interfaces and functionality or wait for CF 8, see what it >provides, >and then just fill in any remaining gaps with "third-party" development? A couple of quick points: jQuery is more than just AJAX. There's also a lot in jQuery (animation effects, DOM manipulation, etc) that CF won't address. These are most likely things that you'll want to tie in to AJAX functionality. Almost all Web 2.0 UI finding I've read, say the same thing--and that's if you're updating partial content on the page, users like a subtle effect on the updated content to reflect the state change. When you write the code yourself (even w/using a library like jQuery) you have complete control over what's going to happen. Whatever AJAX enhancements that CF8 adds, it will still be geared towards to solving "most" problems, but it won't necessarily give you all the functionality you need. You may find that 95% of the time, it does everything you need, but what are you going to do when CF doesn't give you all the functionality you want? Well, if you just start now and begin developing a solutions, I think you'll find the following: * That once you understand how everything is working, it won't take you much more (if any more) time to write the same type of code that CF outputs for you, but you'll have 100% control over the behavior. * That if you need more functionality, you can add to your libraries and then it's always available to you in the future. -Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
