Title
Extending web standards-based widgets towards inter-widget communication
Abstract
In the last decade user interface mashups have gained much interest both in academia and in industry. Their development paradigm enables end users to develop applications without dealing with complexities of the underlying technologies by using so-called widgets. However, user interface mashups haven't reached their full potential yet. Widgets are currently implemented in an isolated manner hindering seamless user-mashup interaction due to the need of manual state synchronization between widgets. Even though mashup run-time environments often enable inter-widget communication, current widget implementations surprisingly make use of it seldom. In this paper, we present a generic approach to semi-automatically extend widgets with dedicated inter-widget communication functionality. Thus, facilitating many cumbersome tasks of the end users when combining different widgets to a single application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-35623-0_10
ICWE Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
current widget,cumbersome task,user interface mashups,full potential,development paradigm,inter-widget communication,standards-based widget,different widget,end user,extending web,dedicated inter-widget communication functionality,last decade user interface
Mashup,World Wide Web,Synchronization,End user,Computer science,Web standards,Implementation,Human–computer interaction,User interface
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.58
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olexiy Chudnovskyy1475.59
Sebastian Müller26313.40
Martin Gaedke31050164.00