Future Technology
Examples/Tools
Note
Some of these pages may contain outdated information or ideas. In most cases this will only be minor details.
Last Update
10/16/2005; 1:22:34 AM
Proof of Concept
Old main test site.
This site shows a number of features.
- Storage: There are no HTML files. All HTML is generated at the client side.
- Format: All data is stored in one data-tree
- Programming: View Source and View Data are built-in
- User Interface: Dynamic help. Extra information is automatically shown when hovering an active object.
Data Format and Storage
Outliner view for VVM
The value/vector model is a prototype of a possible data format of the near future. This example contains a minimal XML parser that returns VVM models. Then an outliner view is created for that model. It is made to show how convenient it often is too differentiate between content (data) and properties (meta-data).
OPML loader
OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is "an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments." This page loads OPML files and renders it in an outliner view.
xmlStorageSystem
Another technology from Userland. It is a file storage system that can be updated with XML-RPC calls. The files are shared over HTTP.
Programming Languages
Spell-Checker
No, this example does not spell-check programming languages, but it uses a programming feature that is particularly useful on the web: remote procedure calls. To be precise, it uses XML-RPC.
Loell
A powerful object oriented language, which runs in javascript.
User Interface
Create organizational charts
This example shows one of many possible ways to create and manipulate data trees.
Weblog search
This page shows how easy it is to use web services to query data results and dynamically create a user interface, instead of generating HTML files on the server.