Web User Interface Implementation Technologies: An Underview

Antero Taivalsaari, Tommi Mikkonen, Kari Systä, Cesare Pautasso

2017

Abstract

Over the years, the World Wide Web has evolved from a document distribution environment into a rich development platform that can run compelling, full-fledged software applications. However, the programming capabilities of the web browser – designed originally for relatively simple scripting tasks – have evolved organically in a rather haphazard fashion. Consequently, there are many ways to build applications on the Web today. Depending on one’s viewpoint, current standards-compatible web browsers support three, four or even five built-in application rendering and programming models. In this paper, we provide an ”underview” of the built-in client-side web application UI implementation technologies, i.e., a summary of those rendering models that are built into the standards-compatible web browser out-of-the-box. While the dominance of the base HTML/CSS/JS technologies cannot be ignored, we foresee Web Components and WebGL gaining popularity as the world moves towards more complex and even richer web applications, including systems supporting virtual and augmented reality.

Paper Citation

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist18,
author={Antero Taivalsaari and Tommi Mikkonen and Kari Systä and Cesare Pautasso},
title={Web User Interface Implementation Technologies: An Underview},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2018},
pages={127-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006885401270136},
isbn={978-989-758-324-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Web User Interface Implementation Technologies: An Underview
SN - 978-989-758-324-7
AU - Taivalsaari A.
AU - Mikkonen T.
AU - Systä K.
AU - Pautasso C.
PY - 2018
SP - 127
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0006885401270136

in Harvard Style

Taivalsaari A., Mikkonen T., Systä K. and Pautasso C. (2018). Web User Interface Implementation Technologies: An Underview.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-324-7, pages 127-136. DOI: 10.5220/0006885401270136