Advantages of Ample SDK framework

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Advantages of Ample SDK framework

Browsing the Internet, I found the new Ample SDK JavaScript framework. From their about section:

Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG or HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style and JavaScript for application logic. It equalizes browsers and brings technologies support to those missing any.

Examples from their website look very promising.

Did anybody try using this framework in real projects? Which are the pros and cons of working with Ample SDK?

I'm mainly interested in your subjective real usage experience, and not in the information already available at their web-site.

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I used in one project for the moment: http://www.programma.tv/.

As for that experience, I did not use any "UI language" (except XHTML, of course) from the A-SDK, just the core. Also I wrote custom UI language ("channels", "days", "items" and some more elements) and that was really simple in case you know javascript well.

But: think twice before implementing your own UI language (i.e. custom components) - maybe it'll be faster use something from the A-SDK?

Anyway, if you'll ask me to choose one word to summarise my opinion, I'd choose this one: "SIMPLE".

1ton 2010-03-04 22:06:48

Thanks, 1ton. You have created a very nice website. I'd wish it to have Ukrainian channels, too ;)

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 08:06:38

I can see it is inserting contents entirely with JavaScript. Thus there is no search engine indexing. Was it difficult to implement it SEO-friendly with A-SDK?

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 08:15:57

Your website is fast and has pretty clean code, by the way.

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 08:16:25

First, it'd be great to understand: the SPI application always get troubles with indexing.Thus, there are two approaches for the SEO-friendly implementation:1. Use **ample.open()** and **ample.close()** (see http://www.amplesdk.com/tutorials/adg/layout/). With this approach you'll get only one page indexed as your application is SPI. (I don't you this one).2. Use **alternate plain HTML** content for your application, which will be served only for the search engines (you can know them by User-Agent header). I use this approach.

1ton 2010-03-05 12:00:13

@1ton: thanks again for your explanation. Now I understand :)

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 12:00:42

+2 A:

Stef Hock 2010-03-05 11:08:41

Interesting and practical response, thanks.

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 12:06:13

+4 A:

Another very subjective opinion from the creator of Ample SDK ;)

Pros:

Standard technologies and APIs make it simpler to take off
Markup-based UI is easy to create and maintain
Good separation of concerns - UI, Logic and Style
Easy to create new UI elements and entire languages
Non-obtrusive - only takes over designated areas on the HTML page

Cons:

Does not aid well development of web-sites (for which jQuery is just enough), it is mainly suitable for client-side apps that run in browser and communicate only data with server.

Sergey Ilinsky 2010-03-05 11:13:18

Thanks, Sergey. I think I'll give it a try some time (hopefully soon). Looks promising :)

Roman Boiko 2010-03-05 12:05:22

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