Here I was minding my own business wandering around the web when BAM! Ajaxian smacks me with a new framework called Responder. Since I love me some frameworks, I had to go and see what this one was all about.

Basically Responder a javascript framework that is a very clean way to develop things like an in place editor. It combines everyday HTML, CSS, and custom javascript to enable you to do things on the page. When you see the demo on the link at the top you will get a feel for what I am talking about. It just feels…clean.

Not the most technical way of describing it…here is a better description from the author:

Responder aims to help you be more productive in front-end programming that shares in the same kind of ‘good design’ practices that we expect on the back-end; in the same way that we think about models, templates and controllers when writing a web application, we need to have an effective and consistent path to follow when building the user interface.

The author hooks it into Ruby on Rails, but since it is pure javascript, it can be used with any server-side language like PHP, or .NET.

Definitely something I would like to try out on my next project. Let me know if you give it a whirl.