Re: Introduction, Create.js

Hi Henry, and welcome to the RWW community!

We are really happy to have you with us, and from what I've seen, your work
fits really really well with the group's theme. Please feel free to read
the
Monthly Open Thread posts, to become acquainted with some of the work our
members are involved with.

Best,
Andrei Sambra
(co-chair of RWW)


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius@iki.fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I joined the RWW group today, and thought brief introductions would be in
> order. Some of you probably already know me through the RDFa and JSON-LD
> groups, or the various open source communities I participate in.
>
> My introduction to a "writable web" came with early CMS work in the 90s
> that eventually resulted in the Midgard open source CMS:
> http://midgard-project.org
>
> Since then, the focus has been more on bringing web editing to the browser
> side by connecting technologies like RDFa and contentEditable. The idea is
> that we could improve all CMSs together by decoupling the editing tools
> from the server implementations of content storage and page generation.
>
> The original description of "Decoupled Content Management" can be found
> from this blog post:
> http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/decoupling_content_management/
> A video version is also available: http://vimeo.com/45633052
>
> This concept resonated quite well in the CMS community, and the two main
> libraries we build for front end editing have reached a wide adoption.
>
> VIE (http://viejs.org) is the underlaying library that manages editable
> content on the client side through Backbone.js, using JSON-LD as the server
> communications layer and RDFa as the HTML-side data binding.
>
> Create.js (http://createjs.org) builds on top of VIE, and adds the
> necessary UI layer for editing content on the browser, including features
> like workflows and locally-saved drafts.
>
> In addition to making content editing easier, I'm currently also exploring
> the editability of "web behaviors" through the concept of Flow-Based
> Programming as implemented in JavaScript with NoFlo (http://noflojs.org).
> Here the idea is to build a kinetic web UI prototyping tool somewhat along
> the lines of Quarz Composer. If you have a touch-enabled browser, you can
> see a simple demo of this in http://noflojs.org/demo/touch.html
>
> If you're interested in how my ideas on this have evolved through the
> time, here is the archive of blog posts around a writable web stretching
> back to 2003: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/category/oscom/
>
> I'm originally from Finland, but currently staying in Berlin, Germany.
>
> /Henri
>