Alt, Florian; Schmidt, Albrecht; Atterer, Richard; Holleis, Paul
Document type:
Konferenzbeitrag / Conference Paper
Title:
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Old Web
Subtitle:
A Platform for Parasitic Applications
Title of conference publication:
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009
Subtitle of conference publication:
12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, 2009, Proceedings, Part I
Series title:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Series volume:
5726
Conference title:
IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (12., 2009, Uppsala)
Conference title:
INTERACT'09
Venue:
Uppsala, Sweden
Year of conference:
2009
Date of conference beginning:
24.08.2009
Date of conference ending:
28.08.2009
Place of publication:
Berlin ; Heidelberg
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag
Year:
2009
Pages from - to:
405-418
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
It is possible to create interactive, responsive web applications that allow user-generated contributions. However, the relevant technologies have to be explicitly deployed by the authors of the web pages. In this work we present the concept of parasitic and symbiotic web applications which can be deployed on arbitrary web pages by means of a proxy-based application platform. Such applications are capable of inserting, editing and deleting the content of web pages. We use an HTTP proxy in order to insert JavaScript code on each web page that is delivered from the web server to the browser. Additionally we use a database server hosting user-generated scripts as well as high-level APIs allowing for implementing customized web applications. Our approach is capable of cooperating with existing web pages by using shared standards (e.g. formatting of the structure on DOM level) and common APIs but also allows for user-generated (parasitic) applications on arbitrary web pages without the need for cooperation by the page owner. «
It is possible to create interactive, responsive web applications that allow user-generated contributions. However, the relevant technologies have to be explicitly deployed by the authors of the web pages. In this work we present the concept of parasitic and symbiotic web applications which can be deployed on arbitrary web pages by means of a proxy-based application platform. Such applications are capable of inserting, editing and deleting the content of web pages. We use an HTTP proxy in order... »