Designing dynamic web pages and persistence in the WYSIWYG interface

ABSTRACT

WebSheets is a programming in the WYSIWYG interface tool for building dynamic web pages that access and modify databases. Without programming, designers can specify not only the presentation of a page, but the dynamic content as well. This capability is facilitated through a novel application of Programming by Example (PBE), Query by Example (QBE), and spreadsheet formulas within the WYSIWYG HTML editor environment.

REFERENCES

• 1: Margaret Burnett , John Atwood , Rebecca Walpole Djang , James Reichwein , Herkimer Gottfried , Sherry Yang, Forms/3: A first-order visual language to explore the boundaries of the spreadsheet paradigm, Journal of Functional Programming, v.11 n.2, p.155-206, March 2001
• 2: Allen Cypher , Daniel C. Halbert , David Kurlander , Henry Lieberman , David Maulsby , Brad A. Myers , Alan Turransky, Watch what I do: programming by demonstration, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993
• 3: Lutris, Inc., http://www.lutris.com/products/index.html
• 4: Macromedia, Inc., http://www.macromedia.com/

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (GUI)

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
          Subjects: User interfaces

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

          Nouns: World Wide Web (WWW)

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
HTML, PBE, QBE, dynamic web pages, spreadsheets