- The Flux Platform gives developers a highly extensible and customizable environment on which to build websites:
- Flux Markup Language (FML) – Developers can customize the appearance of web pages, modules, and their elements using FML. FML is a combination of standard HTML tags with additional proprietary Flux-specific tags added, with the Flux-specific tags being used to access the social data and layer it into the community pages.
- Flux Developer Tools provide a Preview environment with deploy functionality for developing FML and CSS and also FTP functionality to upload static content directly to the Flux servers. This can all be managed via an easy-to-use interface.
- Flux Data Access API (DAAPI) – this provides a mechanism for retrieving publicly available community data. The output is offered in multiple formats (XML, Atom, JSON) for convenience. The DAAPI can be used both inside the community (via FML) and externally (for integration of outbound widgets and promotions).
- Join the developer community now to interact with other Flux developers. Learn more, get answers to tricky questions and share experiences on the developer Discussion Board.
Updated documentation has been posted for the Widget Developer Kit (WDK). It is available here. This covers the topic of advanced widget customization in more detail. Additional references are provided to make it much easier to understand the pre-existing markup and java script logic of the widgets and therefore allow easier customization.
Some sample customized widgets have been added to this site to demonstrate how to take default widget and using WDK customization, create a very customized UI or functionality. Check out the samples here. More examples will be added in the coming weeks...
Finally, one additional very useful piece of functionality is now incorporated into the WDK. This allows for asynchronous refresh of widgets on your web page. So, if building a site using the Flux API to login/logout users, you can now make a simple call to the WDK Event Manager to asynchronously refresh the state of all widgets as necessary. This subject is covered in detail in the latest docs.
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