Guide to the Zen Web App Framework and Mashweb
  • About this book
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Motivation Behind Zen and Mashweb
    • The Death of the Cyberflâneur
    • Old Pie in the Sky
      • Zen Project #1: A Web Site and a New Technology to Help People Scale the Web
      • Zen: First Principles
      • Zen: What Is It Most About?
    • Zen Elevator Pitches
  • Part 2: Goals (and Possible Goals) of Zen
    • The Plan for Alpha Zen
  • Part 3: The Key to Zen: A Nano Framework for Sequential Programming
    • Scheme Interpreters in JavaScript
    • Gambit Scheme
    • Optimizing Gambit on JavaScript for Size
    • Synchronization of JavaScript Events
    • Notes on Asynchronous JavaScript
  • Part 4: Web Page Structure
    • Styles
    • Zen Components: Their Creation, Manipulation, and Affordances
    • Front-End Components
  • Part 5: User Interactions and the HTML5 APIs
    • Zen User Intereactions
    • HTML Drag and Drop, Including File Drag and Drop
    • Using a Gamepad with Zen
  • Part 6: Example Web Apps Built with Zen
    • Zen Web Page Editor
    • Alan's Zen Highlighter Concept
  • Part 7: Outside Tools To Help Build Zen
    • Software for UX/IxD/UI design
  • Part 8: Tricks To Augment Zen's Basic Functions
  • Part 9: Project management
  • Part 10: Zen Status Report
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Part 2: Goals (and Possible Goals) of Zen

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Motivations and goals are not the same thing. When will Zen be complete? Or when will a version of it really exist? The answer is: when its goals have been met.

In reality, though, Zen has a graded set of possible goals, some imminently achievable and some just remotely believable. Part 2 will break this down. See .

The Plan for Alpha Zen