Interface Development

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Service Oriented User Interfaces (SOI)[edit]

Within the institutes of the Max Planck Society there are many different needs for new or improved software solutions. It is almost impossible to build individual GUIs on top of them.

Interfaces - developed by UIE - use basic patterns, based upon a style guide for web applications. As far as possible, new services are built on reusable components^[1], so that new interface elements will be implemented along with proven ones.

Every component has a defined pattern, CSS definitions^[2] and (JavaScript) behaviour and is documented in detail.

Interface Constraints and Accessibility[edit]

Browser variety among institutes and external audience requires definitions of standars to meet.

Browsers and HTML Standards

As research facilities are serving the public good and founded by public expenses they need to meet accessibility standards. Open access should also reach people of different ages and with different abilities.

Requirements of Accessiblity Standards (German)

Implementation Strategy[edit]

To support the ongoing development with productive interfaces interface development runs on two different tracks.
GUI V1 is meant to be replaced step by step and solution by solution with GUI V2.

GUI V1

Built of an easy page-oriented GUI architecture without patterns
Testrun for introduction of reference HTML for JSF development
Focus: Functional requirements

GUI V2

Definition of first patterns
Implementation and preparation of XHTML snippets and style guide definition
Focus: Maturity and quality of the frontend^[3] (Accessibility, Usability, Performance, Browser Compatibility)

Applied Web Technologies[edit]

jQuery Java Script Framework Comparison
Java Server Pages

Component Library[edit]

Interface components, deriving from the pattern library will be implemented as building blocks of fully functional HTML/JS/CSS.

http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/images/5/5a/All_Status_ItemAssign_31_Hover.gif Component Library

Documentation of Interface Components[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Wikipedia on Reusability
↑ The World Wide Web Consortium page on CSS
↑ The front-end is a kind of interface between the user and the back-end, responsible for collecting input in various forms from the user and processing it to conform to a specification the back-end can use. Source: Wikipedia

[1] Wikipedia on Reusability

[2] The World Wide Web Consortium page on CSS

[3] The front-end is a kind of interface between the user and the back-end, responsible for collecting input in various forms from the user and processing it to conform to a specification the back-end can use. Source: Wikipedia

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