Sunday, November 25, 2007

Exhibit 2.0

What company is Offering:
Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming.
How It works:
Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript, which you can include like you would include Google Maps.
If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?
To use Exhibit, you write: a simple data file, and an HTML file in which you specify how the data should be shown. Data + Presentation. That's all there is to publishing, as it should be.
Actually, there is nothing to download—you didn't have to download Google Maps, did you?! Exhibit is also a Web API. All you need is reference its Javascript. Nothing to download; nothing to install. Welcome to a new era of software development.

But if you absolutely have to download something just to feel better about it, or if you have extra disk space to waste, sure, here's how to download Exhibit's source code.
More at:http://simile.mit.edu/

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