Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML
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Author(s)
Verou, Lea
Zhang, Amy Xian
Karger, David R
Date Issued
October 2016
Journal
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Verou, Lea et al. "Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 16-19, 2016, New York, New York USA, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), October 2016 © 2016
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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. Mavo extends the declarative syntax of HTML to describe Web applications that manage, store and transform data. Using Mavo, authors with basic HTML knowledge define complex data schemas 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 Mavo applications.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2984511.2984551
