Creating interactive data-driven web applications by authoring HTML
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986497445-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Verou, Lea
Advisor(s)
David R. Karger.
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Many people can author static web pages with HTML and CSS but find it hard or impossible to program persistent, interactive web applications. We show that for a broad class of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) applications, this gap can be bridged. Mayo extends the declarative syntax of HTML to describe Web applications that manage, store and transform data. Using Mayo, authors with basic HTML knowledge define complex data schemes implicitly as they design their HTML layout. They need only add a few attributes and expressions to their HTML elements to transform their static design into a persistent, data-driven web application whose data can be edited by direct manipulation of the content in the browser. We evaluated Mavo with 20 users who marked up static designs-some provided by us, some their own creation-to transform them into fully functional web applications. Even users with no programming experience were able to quickly craft Mayo applications.
Description
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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