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+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
+<title>Rico 3.0</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+#welcome img {
+ vertical-align: middle;
+ float: left;
+ margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;
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+#welcome span {
+ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
+ font-size: 60px;
+ font-weight: bold;
+ margin: 0px;
+ padding-top: 5px;
+}
+.important, .important a {
+ font-size: 12pt !important;
+ font-weight: bold;
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+p, li {
+ font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
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+li { margin-bottom : 5px }
+</style>
+</head>
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+<body>
+
+<div id='welcome'><img alt="Rico Logo" src="ricologo.gif"><span>Welcome to Rico 3!</span></div>
+
+<p style="clear:both;">Rico is an open source JavaScript framework
+used to create rich, highly interactive web applications.
+Rico is released under the Apache Licence, Version 2.0.
+This allows you to use Rico in nearly all circumstances, commercial and non-commercial, and to modify it as you see fit.
+Read the full license description at <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">the Apache web site</a>.
+
+<p>Previous versions of Rico have relied on the excellent
+<a href="http://www.prototypejs.org" target="_top">Prototype</a>
+library to provide a base level of cross-browser functions.
+Rico 3 has been redesigned to work
+with a variety of popular Javascript libraries using a small
+adapter layer to bridge the differences between each library.
+Thus, you are no longer be required to load Prototype in order to run Rico.
+Of course you can if you choose to, but you can also run it with
+<a href="http://jquery.com" target="_top">jQuery</a> instead,
+or <a href="http://mootools.net" target="_top">MooTools</a>,
+or <a href="http://www.dojotoolkit.org/" target="_top">dojo</a>,
+or <a href="http://extjs.com/products/extcore/" target="_top">ext</a>,
+or <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/" target="_top">BBC Glow</a>.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>Functions supported by Rico 3 include:
+<ul>
+<li>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).
+<li>pop-up "windows" (div's) and menus with shadows
+<li>scrolling grids with frozen columns and headings that can be
+populated with static content or dynamically loaded via AJAX.
+<li>localization support functions, with calendars and standard grid menus provided in
+English, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Ukranian
+<li>number and date formatting
+<li>A variety of Rico themes are included, or you can use <a href="http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/">jQuery Themeroller</a> themes,
+or you can create your own
+<li>Console logging to support debugging
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>Rico resources:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrico/" target="_top">OpenRico@SourceForge</a> - home of OpenRico!
+<li><a href="http://dowdybrown.com/dbprod/" target="_top">dowdybrown.com</a> - online demos & javascript reference
+<li><a href="http://openrico.org/" target="_top">openrico.org</a> - original forums & demos
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+
+</body>
+</html>
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