MPhil presenation

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MPhil presenation
Standard for development of reusable User
Interface Web Components
Supervisor Dr Richard Picking

• Author Max Mulawa (maxm_at_link-infotec.co.uk)
• Research Student,Software Developer

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My Objective

• Explain the ideas and reasons for creating the
  standard.
• Present examples of the Web UI components.
• Scope of the standard.
• Structure of the standard

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Standard Background

• What is a component?
• Two major programming platforms .NET and Java
  support extensively component-oriented
  development.
• Components allow better reusability,
  extensibility and maintainability of the systems.
• Complex Web UI Components provide better user
  experience.

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Standard Rationale

• On the software market there is plenty of
  components available but their quality is not
  verified at all.
• Usage and functionality offered by the component
  might be unclear.
• Web UI component has to coexist with a lot of
  constraints like web standards, different
  browsers, development environments.

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Examples of Web UI Components
TreeView control
Menu control
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Scope of the standard.

• Standard does not cover development process but
  assess its result.
• I assume that component assessed by standard will
  be build in ASP.NET (Microsoft Web Technology)
• Standard will be consisting of Rules divided into
  categories and subcategories.
• Standard will have several different levels of
  compatibility
• Standard document will be in XML format to allow
  better knowledge management

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Standard Structure
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Summary

• Standards are becoming more important in software
  industry
• High quality of components gives vendors
  advantage over their competitors on the software
  market

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Resources

• Visit
• http//webstandards.org/ - website dedicated to
  web standards
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/ - ASP.NET
  development center
• http//www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ - WCAG
  accessibility standard
• Read
• ASP.NET server controls and components by
  Nikhil Kothari,Vandana Datye, Microsoft Press
  2003
• .NET Components by Juval Lowy,OReilly 2005

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Any questions?
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ASP.NET UI Component Standard