Declarative Web 2.0
Erik Wilde,
Declarative Web 2.0,
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada,
August 2007
Web 2.0 applications have become popular as drivers of new types of Web content, but they have also introduced a new level
of interface design in Web development; they are focusing on richer interfaces, user-generated content, and better interworking
of Web-based applications. The current foundations of the Web 2.0, however, are strictly imperative in nature, which makes
it difficult to develop applications which are robust, interoperable, and backwards compatible. Using a declarative approach
for Web 2.0 applications, this new wave of applications can be built on a more robust foundation which is more in line with
the Web's style of using declarative methods whenever possible. We show a path how today's imperative Web 2.0 applications
can be regarded as a testbed as well as a first implementation for a revised version of Web 2.0 technologies, which will be
based on declarative markup rather than imperative code.
