Re: Introduction, Create.js

On 5/13/13 6:20 AM, Henri Bergius 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
>
Henri,

Welcome!

Wondering if your tool can persist content to a Web location via "Save" 
functionality? For instance, can this invoke resource persistence using 
WebDAV or even HTTP PUT. Goal being to resurrect the file create, save, 
and share pattern for creating and sharing resources via the Web.

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