The web page as a WYSIWYG end-user customizable database-backed information management application

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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

Victoria, BC, Canada

SESSION: The tangled web we weave table of contents

Pages 257-260

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-745-5

Authors

David R. Karger	MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Scott Ostler	MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ryan Lee	MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Dido is an application (and application development environment) in a web page. It is a single web page containing rich structured data, an AJAXy interactive visualizer/editor for that data, and a "metaeditor" for WYSIWYG editing of the visualizer/editor. Historically, users have been limited to the data schemas, visualizations, and interactions offered by a small number of heavyweight applications. In contrast, Dido encourages and enables the end user to edit (not code) in his or her web browser a distinct ephemeral interaction "wrapper" for each data collection that is specifically suited to its intended use. Dido's active document metaphor has been explored before but we show how, given today's web infrastructure, it can be deployed in a small self-contained HTML document without touching a web client or server.

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