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Ajax comes to Dreamweaver CS3 through Spry Data objects.
Spry Widgets impact two major facets of Web design: layouts and forms. The Spry layout widgets included
in Dreamweaver CS3 offer designers a wealth of new possibilities: standards-based menu bars, tabbed panels,
accordion panels, and collapsible panels. Each layout widget is drop-dead simple to implement??”just
drag it onto the page and you??™re good to go??”and just as easy to modify. Spry form widgets neatly solve a
Web designer core issue: validation. Now designers no longer need to agonize over the painstaking chore of
validating each and every form element. The Spry Validation Form widgets (for text, textarea, select list, and
checkbox form fields) include both the form field and validation, all in one drag-and-drop object. Error
messages can be quickly modified in Design or Code view. No muss and certainly no more fuss.
The final leg of the Web 2.0 tripod is Spry Effects. Have you visited a site recently to see full-sized images
growing from thumbnails and then shrinking again, all under user control? How about portions of the Web
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page that highlight quickly when loaded to attract your attention and then just as quickly fade from view?
With Spry Effects, you can add these functions??”and much, much more??”to your pages so other designers
can visit your sites with envy.
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