CHAPTER 11Creating User-Defined Mashups
As powerful computers have become more common, users have begun to see them as information aggregation tools. This is a direct outgrowth of the web experience. Web sites are a version of data aggregation that allows users to select the information to be viewed. Today’s browsers also allow web RSS feeds to show up as links in a page or as bookmarks. E-mail has long since been included in the browser. All of these, as well as AJAX applications, lead a user to believe that data aggregation is the purpose of the browser and therefore the computer itself.
As these users demand more and more application flexibility, web applications must adapt. Using mashups, multiple portions of separate pages displayed in one ...
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