Chapter 8. SPRUCING UP CONTENT WITH SPRY WIDGETS
A common dilemma with website design is too little space to display all the content that needs to be on a particular page. Spry widgets to the rescue . . . In common with other Ajax frameworks, Spry makes it easy to build components—such as accordions and tabbed and collapsible panels—that slot into a web page and give it a much more dynamic feel. The Spry Tabbed Panels (see Figure 8-1) and Spry Accordion (see Figure 8-18) are a series of interlinked panels, in which just one panel is open at a time. Spry Collapsible Panels work independently, so they can be opened and closed in any combination.
From the user's point of view, all three are intuitive metaphors that shouldn't need any explanation. ...
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