HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 31 January 1996

Foil 27 I.17:Preliminary Design of WebFlow Production Version of WebFoil

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

WebFlow based production version of WebFoil will be modularized in terms of a set of backend modules (such as foil server, audio server or database server), and a set of frontend modules (such as NavigationBar, Clock, ListPanel, FoilViewer etc.).
NavigationBar is a composite module built out of button modules.
Buttons are further decomposed - for example the [Next] button is a compute-web including Counter, FoilLoader and ExceptionHandler primitive modules.
Buttons are visually authored using the compute-web editor, and the resulting JavaScript functions are constructed automatically be the WebFlow "visual JavaScript compiler" (i.e. graph->source generator)
Functional/Dataflow decomposition of WebFoil will make it more robust and less sensitive to rapid changes of the JavaScript specification.



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