Are there any Ajax windowing frameworks out there?

Question

I have a project with a lot of pop-up layering going on and while i will have one layer open, that layer will effectively serve as another window. I'm currently managing this with _json specific return pages that just return json objects and the layer acts on that. Each call from the layer is from a jquery .ajax call which processes the json and requests another page.

Is there a more defined framework for this type of MVC interaction ? I'm managing the creation of the layer, the navigation from layer 1 to layer 2 and the refreshment of the layer with some code but it will quickly become unwieldy.

Answer 1

http://www.socialembedded.com/labs/jQuery-Windows-Engine-Plugin/jQuery-Windows-Engine-Plugin.html

http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/

I think these are the two I was looking for.

Thanks guys!

Answer 2

I used dijit before to do more complex window management. It might help you: Dijit

Answer 3

Cappuccino allows for some pretty sophisticated webpages: http://cappuccino.org/

Answer 4

You could also consider looking at Ext.

Food for thought. Cheers.