Advantages of Ample SDK framework

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.