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both by venture companies as well as well established enterprises like Fujitsu and
Hitachi. All based on our design. These products worked very well for their time, but
had problem reaching a broad audience. This was because of multiple reasons, but to
mention just a few, these systems were not free, or they were only used internally and
only the final products were then released, basically locked down for change, which
of course removed some major selling points of being easy accessed and available as
well as reconfigurable. The implementations were still good but the benefits of Intel-
ligentPad were mainly aimed for a selected few to reap its benefits. Those who had
access to it saw the great potential, but most did not have that access.
But it was not that simple either. There was another factor that crippled the global
whirlwind of IntelligentPad and that was as mentioned before, the mindset of its us-
ers. In those days it was mainly aimed for skilled programmers in order to simplify
their work, but they had been developing code for years so the somewhat different
approach of thinking that came with IntelligentPad did not seem to penetrate the aver-
age developer so well. Instead of creating a large library of small reusable objects, a
gigantic library of larger one-purpose objects were formed, where many IP (Intelli-
gentPads) became bulky and super specialized and more or less impossible for use
outside its original settings. Of course there were simple blocks like buttons and text-
boxes made, but often more complex needs was implemented, not as more building
blocks, but instead as additional code in already very specialized objects. Program-
mers tend to develop a form of tunnel view when writing code, and though it was a bit
more natural to create smarter classes at some point it never became a rule to break
down IP into smaller and smarter components for greater re-usability, this is of course
also due to the fact that making one complex IP takes less time to make than ten well
designed parts that would form the complexity needed. Time that would of course be
regained the next moment similar needs were raised, but that was not often enough
considered.
In 2007 a request was made to implement a smart reconfigurable tool for cancer re-
search trial management [8] using the concept of IntelligentPad but the current avail-
able implementation was not able to fulfill every requirement, instead a new version
of IntelligentPad framework would be developed. During a number of years this new
platform was developed in parallel with world-wide projects that would benefit from
this type of framework which also worked as a great stress tester of the underlying
system. In 2010 that framework went online for limited use outside its academic con-
finements and in 2012 its stability and feature base was considered strong enough for
the general public. This framework is called Webble World.
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Webble World
For those of you that are familiar with meme media objects and IntelligentPad. A
Webble is all that, and a bit more [3] [10]. Webble World is the browser based
framework where Webbles live. When visiting a Webble World web site the user get
access to a federation of Webble objects published online together with an even larger
set of widgets and applications constructed and built with these Webbles.
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