Re: Draft outline of XG report for discussion in today's telecon

aloha, charlie!

1) i should be at tomorrow's meeting, and if so, will scribe;

2) thank you for the "more readable version" of the outline of the XG 
report

3) proposed addition:

extant
   c. Accessibility - 
end extant

proposed
   c. Accessibility - users will be able to consume content in a context
      and in a modality that most suits that user's needs; out of one 
      data source, multiple presentation options (such as: speech output,
      alone, speech output and braille, speech input and refreshable 
      braille, speech and magnification, refreshable braille alone)
      for which synchronization is necessary;
end proposed

gregory.
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Gregory J. Rosmaita: gregory@linux-foundation.org
   Vice-Chair: Linux Foundation's Open Accessibility Workgroup
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From: Charles F Wiecha <wiecha@us.ibm.com>
To: public-xg-app-backplane <public-xg-app-backplane@w3.org>
Sent: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:56:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Draft outline of XG report for discussion in today's telecon

> More readable version...Charlie
> 
> ------------------
> 
> Standards-based Rich Web Applications
> 
> I. Introduction – the need for “Rich” Web applications
> 
>    a. Evolution of the web as the platform for high-function 
> applications,
 not just “content”
> 
> II. What do we mean by “Rich” anyway?
> 
>    a. It’s really about function – apps that can support 
> core processes:
 not just “transient” etc
>    b. Apps can be Rich in different ways
>       i. Presentation: Rich media, the common meaning of RIAs
   
>    ii. Data: Validation, intelligent prefilling to avoid data 
> entry
      iii. Logic/Control: Rich interaction, supportive and 
> intelligent data
 entry, context sensitive controls, skipping 
> steps etc
      iv. Server connection: async interaction to 
> support all of the above
> 
> III. Benefits of being Rich
>    a. Improved user experience
>    b. Performance
>    c. Accessibility
> 
>    d. Platform portability – different UIs for different 
> platforms
>    e. Offline support
>    f. Composability – white box extensibility (the App as 
> extension point)
> 
> IV. Architectural patterns in Rich Web Applications – the 
> Backplane
>    a. MVC patterns for Web applications
>    b. Coordination patterns to aid transparency and composition:
>  event-based patterns
>    c. Implicit coordination pattern: “data as API”
>    d. Submission patterns
>       i. Submission as submission: page complete
      ii. 
> Incremental data refresh
      iii. Delegation of event 
> processing to the server (field to field
 logic)
>    e. Vendor-centric examples in practice today: MXML, XAML, 
> Laszlo
> 
> V. Addressing the platform support question for Rich Web 
> Applications –
>    a. XML on the client – Javascript as tag library language 
> not
 programming model
>    b. The Ubiquity project example for XForms
>    c. Potential for other namespaces where processing models are 
> important,
> i.e where XML is beyond a data-format but also an application 
> model:
>       i. SMIL
      ii. SVG (depends also on having lower-level 
> graphics, eg. Canvas,
 support)
      iii. Open Document Format 
> (ODF)
      iv. Industry vertical standards, e.g. XBRL, ACORD, 
> HL7
>       v. Long-tail of “Niche” namespaces: molecular markup 
> language
> (name???)
> 
> VI. Getting from here to there: bridging from HTML to RIAs
>    a. RIA patterns “projected” onto HTML
>    b. Example: XForms for HTML
>    c. Implementation in the Ubiquity project
> 
> VII. Examples of Rich Web Applications from the Backplane XG’s 
> work
>    a. MVC pattern: YUI widgets with XForms data binding
>    b. Submission pattern: XForms-based Dojo data provider
>    c. Implicit coordination pattern: data as API
>       i. SMIL+XHTML
      ii. Voice+XHTML via data model not 
> controls (i.e. beyond X+V)
      iii. ODF+XHTML
> 
> VIII. Going forward: potential for future work/exploration
> 
>    a. Leveraging RIA patterns for common end-to-end programming 
> model
>       i. Deployment-time positioning of validation logic
      
> ii. Smarter network intermediaries – data filling at portals 
> etc
>    b. Others…
> 
> Charles Wiecha
> Manager, Multichannel Web Interaction
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> P.O. Box 704
> Yorktown Heights, N.Y.  10598
> Phone: (914) 784-6180, T/L 863-6180, Cell: (914) 320-2614
> wiecha@us.ibm.com
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