Comments on: Clickframes

By: vineet

vineet — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:07:08 +0000

Hi, our idea was to start out with the most common user interactions first. You are right, the current specs are limited to inputs, form submissions and page navigation. We are open to modeling other user interactions as you suggested if it can be done without making the spec too complicated. For example, we are planning to add ajax semantics in the next version of appspec.

- Vineet Manohar

By: Jakub Linowski

Jakub Linowski — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:41:20 +0000

Hey Will,

Aside of using a separate tool to create the appspec, how far out do you guys intend to go with modelling the interactions? Say, would it be possible to model a drag and drop, hover, keypress, as well as richer effects such as expands, slides, collapses, show, hide, etc? If I understand correctly, right now the models are limited to clicks and page refreshes?

Just curious.

Cheers,
Jakub

By: Will

Will — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:22:19 +0000

For the basics, sure. For the more complex modeling capability – entities, complex interaction modeling, etc. – that might be a little harder. But you could definitely use Balsamiq, or Visio, or anything else that produces transformable XML to get a good head start on site structure.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:57:05 +0000

The appspec XML looks like something that could be easily produced by Balsamiq…