Welcome to Rico!

Rico is an open source JavaScript framework used to create rich, highly interactive web applications. Rico is released under the Apache License.

Previous versions of Rico have relied on the excellent Prototype library to provide a base level of cross-browser functions. The next version of Rico (3.0) has not been released yet. But this demo is designed to show that it will be able to work with a variety of popular Javascript libraries using a small adapter layer to bridge the differences between each library. Thus, you will no longer be required to load Prototype in order to run Rico. Of course you can if you choose to, but you could also run it with jQuery instead, or MooTools, or dojo, or ext,

Functions supported by the Rico code used in this demo include:

• Event model, Ajax model, Animation model, and CSS selector model tied to the base library, but adapters provide common calling conventions (since Prototype does not include animation support, the adapter for Prototype provides this support).
• pop-up "windows" (div's) and menus with shadows
• scrolling grids with frozen columns and headings that can be populated with static content or dynamically loaded via AJAX.
• localization support functions, with calendars and standard grid menus provided in English, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Ukranian
• number and date formatting
• A variety of Rico themes are included, or you can use jQuery Themeroller themes, or you can create your own
• Console logging to support debugging

Rico resources:

• OpenRico@SourceForge - home of OpenRico!
• dowdybrown.com - online demos & javascript reference
• openrico.org - original forums & demos