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maybe faster in a one purpose scenario, but it will be more or less completely lost
in a new setting and environment and reusability in future scenarios will be severely
crippled.
3.3
Available Webbles
Webbles comes in many shapes and forms. The traditional objects as buttons, text-
boxes, labels and images etc exists, but also more complex ones like windows, charts,
lists and customizable XAML (vector graphic script language) Webbles, just to men-
tion a few. Also a lot of specialized Webbles for generating random numbers, trans-
forming XML, keeping time and generate maps is included in the repository with a
much smaller but very powerful set of Webble Control Webbles like the often used
Event-Action Manager [10] that allows the Webble application designer to catch
events and react accordingly.
Fig. 3.
A small set of available Webble Widgets built by another set of primitive Webbles. How
these Webbles are connected and work together is best discovered by visiting Webble World,
where these Webbles can be found and examined and experimented with.
Some of the most advanced applications [8] [9] developed in Webble World was
made for specific environments and users dealing with highly secured data, and are
therefore not available to the general public, but there are still a few applications and
games to test, and also our, still under development, data analyzing dash board.
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Current State
The current version of Webble World, as of the time of this writing, was built on
top of Microsoft Silverlight technology, a browser plug-in with rich state of the art
