The web interface should be radically refactored

John R. Douceur; Jon Howell; Bryan Parno; Michael Walfish; Xi Xiong

doi:10.1145/2070562.2070572

The web interface should be radically refactored

John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, Michael Walfish, Xi Xiong

Computer Science

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Abstract

The Web API conflates two conflicting goals: serving developers by supporting a wide and growing suite of functionality, and providing applications with an isolated execution environment. We propose to split the API into two levels of interface: a low-level interface that governs the relationship between the application and the browser, and a set of high-level interfaces that govern the relationship between the application and its developer. We delineate a tiny set of properties needed by the low-level interface. We argue that this restructuring provides significant benefit to both developers and users.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2070562.2070572
State	Published - 2011
Event	10th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10 - Cambridge, MA, United States Duration: Nov 14 2011 → Nov 15 2011

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Name	Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10

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Other	10th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cambridge, MA
Period	11/14/11 → 11/15/11

Keywords

programming interface
web procotol

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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Douceur, JR, Howell, J, Parno, B, Walfish, M & Xiong, X 2011, The web interface should be radically refactored. in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10, 10th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10, Cambridge, MA, United States, 11/14/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2070562.2070572

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