Continuing Workflow Evolution

We summarize how we have come to our current understanding of scripts in the sharing context of federated wiki.

There are many wiki sites that share content under the creative commons license.

The client allows the owner of a site to edit json encoded pages on one site and retrieve json pages from any other site.

A site can also serve arbitrary assets into the federation. A page can include an Assets plugin configured to read and write files from a particular assets directory.

A page can also include a Frame plugin which will run arbitrary html from somewhere in the internet, quite possibly from an assets directory in some wiki site.

The Frame plugin has grown with message handlers that expose features of the client that lets the sandboxed html script interact with the federated wiki client in interesting ways.

I will show you a pandemic project that has grown out of workflow automation written as small html scripts stored in Assets and run in Frames.

Today I will give you a guided tour of these three sites with special attention to the software engineering properties that wiki brings to javascript.

See History of Phototelling