Clicks & Notes

08 April 2005

Moving beyond the page metaphor on the web

Atomiq - Beyond the Page and Atomiq - Beyond the Page (the return)

  • the “page” currently functions as the basic presentation and organizational unit – both for people browsing the web, and for people who produce content for the web
  • however, new trends on the web are challenging and disrupting the page metaphor:
    • Rich Internet Applications (RIA) – including those using Flash, Ajax, and Java
    • RSS / Atom / XML content – can be mixed/spliced with other content
    • “blurred boundaries” – between the desktop and the web, and between other devices that can share web content
  • current IA tools, such as site maps and wireframes, are inadequate for modelling the new breed of websites/content
  • new IA tools:
  • a new website, RIAIA.com will be covering issues pertaining to IA for RIAs (no content there at the moment)
  • see also: IAlog - RIAs and the death of the page (rumors greatly exaggerated)

Bloug - RIA and Log Analysis

  • moving beyond the page metaphor may also pose a difficulty for web analytics – how do we measure these new sites?
    • Flash has user event capture functionality
    • Ajax still makes use of http request, which are logged by the server
  • tracking inside these interfaces requires more tagging of content
  • the potential exists to capture even more information than what is available with convential log files, such as data on mouse gestures and movements
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