AIM Pages and ModuleT

Kevin Lawver

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AIM Pages

• Drag and drop page creation
• Open platform for mashup development and hosting
• Openness driven by standards

Demo Time!

• AIM Pages
• Developer Playground
• Documentation

ModuleT

• It's a microformat!
  • Meant to describe portable pieces of content or functionality
  • Can either describe the template or an instance
    • Allows you to easily create modules out of existing content
• All the details are on our site

What ModuleT Defines

• example
• "View" interface
  • A "head" and a "body" within it.
• "Edit" interface
  • A "head" and a "body" within it.
• Author information
• License
• Description and Detail
• Module Properties
  • minimum width
  • default width
  • liquid
  • does it allow multiple instances
  • thumbnail image

Dojo Mojo

• We love Dojo
• But, if you don't, you can use something else and it should work.
• Makes things easier, keeps your code smaller
• We host it, you use it.
• More details

A Modular State of Mind

• Build things slightly differently
• Keep it simple, keep it small

Keeping It Local: The CSS Story

• Everything should descend from your module's unique class (the module name)

Keeping It Local: The Javascript Story

• Create a javascript namespace with a unique object (some form of your module name)
• Keeps everyone in their own sandbox
• Solves a lot of problems with function overlapping

Reaching Out: AJAX and AIM Pages

• Open Proxy
• Simple API or you can use dojo.io.bind

Tools

• Module Maker
• Validator (has some issues in IE)

Using ModuleT As A Base

• Open, Royalty Free
• Works well with other widget platforms

Demo Time!

• AIM Fight multi-platform widget
• Get it

Demo Time Two

• Mashup A Page
• The awesome glory of DOM scripting!
• Check out the "title-changer" module in the Under Construction category

Demo Time Three

• Your page as a web service:
  • http://www.aimpages.com/kplawver/profile.html?moduleid=buddy-gallery-0
  • http://www.aimpages.com/kplawver/profile.html?moduleid=buddy-gallery-0&aspage
• There are a couple bugs in it at the moment... will be fixed soon.

Questions?

• Go build your own!