IBM announced Maqetta, an HTML5 authoring tool for building desktop and mobile user interfaces, and also announced the contribution of the open-source technology to the Dojo Foundation.
LAS VEGAS – At the IBM Impact 2011 conference here, IBM announced both Maqetta as well as the open source contribution of its Maqetta HTML5 visual authoring tool to the Dojo Foundation.
Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces using drag and drop assembly, and supports both desktop and mobile user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plug-ins or downloads. Maqetta is available under a commercial-friendly open source license. Ands users can download the source code and install it on their own server, customize the code to fit their needs and contribute improvements to the open source project.
IBM officials said HTML5 is an umbrella term for dozens of new features that ship in modern browsers (desktop and mobile) that allow rich user interfaces, graphics, multimedia and fast performance using open standards. HTML5 ships in the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari, and on modern smartphones, including iPhone, Android, RIM BlackBerry and Windows 7 Mobile.
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