by Andrew Su | Nov 18, 2008 | BioGPS, extensibility, plugin
So far, we’ve introduced the simple BioGPS plugin interface, and shown how this interface was used to construct an extensive plugin library. Browsing the BioGPS plugin library, you’ll undoubtedly note that the vast majority of plugins we’ve hooked up...
by Andrew Su | Nov 11, 2008 | BioGPS, customizability, layouts, plugin
In the last post, we described how the BioGPS plugin interface will be based on simple HTML. Before we go into exactly how this will work technically, let’s first look at the power and extensibility it enables.We previously described that customizability is a...
by Andrew Su | Nov 6, 2008 | BioGPS, extensibility, plugin
HTML.That’s it, the simple HyperText Markup Language, the backbone of the Web, will be the BioGPS data exchange protocol.First, let’s step back a moment. We’ve always had the goal of extensibility as one of the two central themes of BioGPS, since the...