Comments on: Rico and more http://emergent.urbanpug.com/?p=34 Order from disorder - Thoughts about where technology is going. Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Bill Scott http://emergent.urbanpug.com/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-25 Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:46:29 +0000 http://emergent.urbanpug.com/?p=34#comment-25 We have added the LiveGrid behavior which allows unlimited data to be viewed in a web page through a normal scroller. Read my Death to Paging blog at: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com

]]> By: Bill Scott http://emergent.urbanpug.com/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-17 Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:00:38 +0000 http://emergent.urbanpug.com/?p=34#comment-17 Being the ‘rico’ guys, I have to chuckle. When we decided to call it Rico we also laughed about the whole Rico Suave thing and Uncle Rico, etc. We have joked about putting a shirtless, leather-jacketed figure as our icon 😉

I really agree with your assessment. It is hard to do piecemeal stuff and have a comprehensive approach.

At Sabre we actually do have a fairly sophisticated web component framework. Although some of it is not intended to be open-sourced and others have to be un-entangled from our J2EE, JSP/tag approach we had at the beginning. For example we have an incredible editable grid component that is ajax-enabled and can support as many records as your server can hold in memory (scrolls them in via ajax).

The idea behind Rico was just to be as lightweight as possible. Meaning that you have your normal markup and just apply d&d, effects, behaviors, ajax as needed. This allows it to be baked into Rails, PHP, Java Server Faces, Struts, ASP, etc.

Our plans is to get a grid out that can handle large amounts of data and be styled your own way. Also we will add some more behaviors: tabs, layout, splitters, etc.

Thanks for your comments. Good observations.

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Bill Scott

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