Re: Best Web technology from usability perspective

I highly recommend the Woodstock component set along with the accompanying Sun Web application guidelines. 

The Sun Web app guidelines are written by a group of interaction designers at Sun and used on 20+ web applications. The guidelines drive the components. Each component is designed to deliver the functionality needed by the web apps. As a result they are based on actual use cases. There has been lots of usability testing, both of the components directly, and of the apps built using the components, so the usability of the components is solid.

The Woodstock component set is available at: https://woodstock.dev.java.net/index.html

and the Sun Web Application Gudelines (v 4.0) are at:

http://developers.sun.com/docs/web-app-guidelines/uispec4_0/

The components are also part of the NetBeans IDE's Visual Web Pack that allows drag and drop app creation.

--Kartik

Note: I'm biased having been involved with the project for years.

 
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anant KARTIK MITHAL



----- Original Message ----
From: Mathijs Panhuijsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Best Web technology from usability perspective

Hello everybody,

My company is looking into choosing a new Web technology for building
their next generation GUI (browser-based).

They are considering options ranging from a homebrew AJAX-based system
to the Google Web Toolkit to Microsoft Silverlight.

My question to you is:

Which Web technology would you recommend for building a RIA, purely from
a usability point of view?

We're talking here about a very rich application with loads of
functionality, not an 'interactive Web site'.

In other words, which Web technology works best to develop the most
usable interfaces the quickest?



Kind regards,



Mathijs Panhuijsen

Technical Writer

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