Comments on: Rico 2: Rebirth is near

By: Bill Scott

Bill Scott — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:54:21 +0000

Glad to see this happening.

Darren, Sameera & I (along with Richard Cowin & Theresa Neil) started Rico back at Sabre. When three of us were hired at Yahoo! there just did not seem to be anytime to work on it anymore.

Kind of a shame since at Sabre we had about 30 components already written (like editable grid, etc.) that were planned to be refactored and put into Rico by the Fall of 2005.

After our exodus Richard kept it alive as he worked on the fiveruns.com project (Rails + Rico + Scriptaculous). Richard created a lot of really nice stuff for the library that I saw a year or so back but there was very limited help to get it out to the world.

I threw my support behind YUI, Darren was swamped with the new Yahoo! Mail, Sameera my.yahoo & the yahoo home page…

Richard informed me the other day that there are several folks now becoming active on the project.

Another rumor… there is a redesign of the site coming along with a tie in to patterns.

I really wish them full success, however, not sure if it is possible to compete against the plethora of toolkits that have matured considerably since then.

By: Liming Xu

Liming Xu — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:57:03 +0000

I agree with ajaxianfading, the stuff is cool, but I just can’t see myself using it because of the lack in updates and support. I really think one of the major reasons for a successful project is how active the support it is. It makes everything different.

Still cool nontheless.

By: Mark Holton

Mark Holton — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:21:34 +0000

…very cool… I’ve gotten some mileage out of that accordion component… it’ll be nice to try out Rico 2.0! Thanks for the info, Dion!

By: Sad Developper

Sad Developper — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:34:02 +0000

and at the time, he doesn’t seem to have the resources (server) to serve the library…

By: ajaxianfading

ajaxianfading — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:17:26 +0000

I used to love Rico, but there was such an extended hiatus that other libraries have come along and overtaken it. I think he just doesn’t have the resources (time) to devote to the library.