I'd also like to see more RIA widgets in Axure.
yesterday I created an accordion in Axure RP 5 and it was a b*tch. I designed 10 panels, each with two states: open and closed. EACH open and EACH closed state controlled all the other panels' positions. there was plenty of copying and pasting but still tweaking the links took hours.
I believe Axure should echo the opinion of Canadian CSS software creators Skybound: "if we find a request represents a gain in productivity, we do it". their software, Stylizer, is THE best CSS option around, no two ways about it.
now, speaking of RIA, I'd like to do a little wrap-up of this post and propose some other functionalities:
- accordion (both vertical and horizontal);
- tree menu;
- tabbed panel (again, both vertical and horizontal);
- floating window (pretty much a dynamic panel for the *user* to drag, resize and minimize);
- conditional options (checkboxes that get "grayed out" if their corresponding radio button isn't selected).
and finally, an independent way to add widgets: they'd be available in Axure's webpage for download on-demand. in a nutshell, "don't install what you don't need".
how about it?