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On the subject of the 'cool' factor, Yahoo Pipes has been around for years: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit
by kes 16y ago
On the subject of the 'cool' factor, Yahoo Pipes has been around for years: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit
- sdfx 16y agoYes, it reminded me of them as well. But while Yahoo Pipes look nice they get over complicated pretty fast. Flow charts for automatic call answering on the other hand have been around for quite some time and might be a better fit for such a representation.
- fdb 16y agoAre there specific JavaScript frameworks for creating these node-based interfaces in the browser? I notice that it's a mish-mash of div and canvas tags.
- pak 16y agoWe used jQuery UI as a framework, but built a lot of custom widgets for the wires, modules, nodes, receptors, etc. Yahoo Pipes was certainly an inspiration for our design, but we rethought the concepts behind using wires (using them as a control flow mechanism, not a data flow mechanism; e.g., there are no wires for variables, we use them in sort of the way MIT's Scratch does). We don't know of any framework for this sort of interface, and we did not want to use Flash, so we just rolled up our sleeves and made it ourselves. jQuery and jQuery UI, however, were instrumental; for this sort of new-ish UI, it was useful to have the ability to progressively layer functionality onto HTML elements. We also made extensive use of the $.Widget framework to construct our widgets in the same fashion as jQuery UI's.
- _sh 16y agoNeyric's javascript wiring library is inspired by Yahoo Pipes. http://javascript.neyric.com/wireit/guide.html http://javascript.neyric.com/wireit/guide.html