The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies - Fowler S., Stanwick V. - Web Application Design Handbook. Best Practices for Web-Based Software [2004, PDF, ENG]

Web Application Design Handbook. Best Practices for Web-Based Software

Год: 2004
Автор: Susan Fowler and Victor Stanwick
Жанр: Практическое пособие
Издательство: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
ISBN: 1-55860-752-8
Серия: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Количество страниц: 689

Описание: The Web Application Design Handbook doesn’t talk about how to program a web application using HTML, Java, ActiveX, or any other programming language, although there are a few program fragments. Instead, it shows how developers might use the web to add magic to applications. For example, a troubleshooting diagram can be more than a picture. Using the diagram, technicians can link to a failing server, check it, and even reboot it by just clicking on its icon.

Also, web applications can pull in many more types of information than most desktop applications can. For example, by pressing a button, a user can get help for a particular question (“Is this piece of XYZ equipment prone to water damage?”) from a web-based content-management system (“XYZ equipment is watertight. Look for battery failure”).

Finally, web applications can be more colorful and more interesting to look at than most desktop applications.

However, like desktop and client/server applications, web applications rely on data. Under the surface, web applications are not all that different from desktop applications or even the missile trajectory programs that ran on the earliest computers like the ENIAC. In fact, the first half of Web Application Design addresses data input, output, and retrieval.

What is different about web applications is that interface designers might finally make a visualization breakthrough. This is why the second half of the book concentrates on graphs, diagrams, and geographic maps. (The best way to predict the future is to help create it.)

But why are so visualizations important? The answers to that question follow a bit of history.

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