Web GUI
From Dedupe
Under construction......
After a few brief discussions it sounds like AJAX might be one of the answers to a Web GUI for some form of dedupe/fuzzy application. My initial ramblings suggest it would allow;
- loading of various data (from files/databases etc)
- viewing the data and choosing what is relevant
- choosing some options and maybe defining some exceptions
- running a search/match/group whatever operation
- producing some output
A few of you have shown interest in developing such an application (or front end I guess). If you'd like to put your details in here maybe we can begin some brainstorming?
AJAX
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (full article: Wikipedia)
Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a World Wide Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability. The first known use of the term in public was by Jesse James Garrett in his February 2005 article Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. At subsequent talks and seminars Garrett has made the point that Ajax is not an acronym.
User:Macvijay1985 pointed out two promising AJAX toolkits which already exist...
- Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients
Echo2 is java based The documentation says that it is a java web application framework and they provide javdocs. But, I guess, this will
lead us to using JSP over our current stance of PHP. I would be happy to contribute in PHP rather than JSP
--Macvijay1985 19:17, 15 June 2006 (BST)
- Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, f(m)), which is why we refer to it sometimes as a "unified" toolkit. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.
I have also stumbled across google's answer recently;
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.
