LIMITED-SCOPE RENDERING

• US 20090235186A1
• Filed: 03/12/2008
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Malek, Alexander Hussain, Chtcherbatchenko, Andrei V., Howard, Robert McKee
• Application Number:
  US12/047,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20090235186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Technologies and concepts are presented herein for limited-scope rendering of a document, such as a Web page, which contains code that when rendered or executed generates one or more graphical page elements. A user interface is provided through which a scope within the code or page elements may be specified. A request may also be received to zoom into the selected scope. In response to such a request, only the code and/or page elements within the specified scope are rendered, displayed, and made available for editing. Code and page elements outside the specified scope are not rendered or displayed. In response to a request to zoom out from the selected scope, all of the code and page elements are rendered and displayed.

Claims

1. A method for the limited-scope rendering of a document comprising code for generating one or more page elements, the method comprising:

displaying the code in a first section of a user interface;

rendering the code to generate the one or more page elements

displaying the generated page elements in a second section of the user interface;

receiving a selection of one of the page elements displayed in the second section of the user interface;

receiving a request to render only the selected page element; and

in response to receiving the request to render only the selected page element, displaying only the selected page element in the second section of the user interface and displaying a portion of the code corresponding only to the selected page element in the first section of the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a portion of the code displayed in the first section of the user interface;

receiving a request to render only the selected portion of the code; and

in response to receiving the request to render only the selected portion of the code, displaying only the selected portion of the code in the first section of the user interface and rendering the selected portion of the code to display only one or more of the page elements in the second portion of the user interface that correspond to the selected portion of the code.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the code comprises wherein the code comprises one or more of ASP.NET code, HTML, CSS, XSL, FLASH, SILVERLIGHT, or JAVASCRIPT.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to display only the code; and

in response to receiving the request to display only the code, displaying only the first section of the user interface.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising providing functionality for editing the code in the first section of the user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to display only the page elements; and

in response to receiving the request to display only the page elements, displaying only the second section of the user interface.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing functionality for editing the page elements in the second section of the user interface.

8. A computer storage medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

provide a user interface for editing a document having code stored therein for generating one or more graphical page elements, the user interface comprising a first portion and a second portion;

display the code in the first portion;

render the code to generate the one or more graphical page elements;

display the one or more graphical page elements in the second portion;

receive a selection of a one of the graphical page elements displayed in the second portion;

receive a request to zoom into the selected graphical page element; and

in response to receiving the request to zoom into the selected graphical page element, to display only the selected graphical page element in the second portion of the user interface and to display only a code portion corresponding to the selected graphical page element in the first portion of the user interface.

9. The computer storage medium of claim 8, having further computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive a selection of a portion of the code displayed in the first portion of the user interface;

receive a request to zoom into the selected portion of the code; and

in response to receiving the request to zoom into the selected portion of the code, displaying only the selected portion of the code in the first portion of the user interface and rendering the selected portion of the code to display only the graphical page elements that correspond to the selected portion of the code in the second portion of the user interface.

10. The computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein displaying the selected graphical page element comprises rendering the selected graphic page element to fill the second portion of the user interface.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 10, having further computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive a request to display only the code; and

in response to the request to display only the code, to remove the second portion of the user interface thereby displaying only the code in the user interface.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 11, having further computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to provide functionality for editing the code displayed in the first portion of the user interface.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 12, having further computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive a request to display only the graphical page elements; and

in response to the request to display only the graphical page elements, removing the first portion of the user interface, thereby displaying only the graphical page elements in the user interface.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 13, having further computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to provide functionality for editing the graphical elements displayed in the second portion of the user interface.

15. The computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein the code comprises one or more of ASP.NET code, HTML, CSS, XSL, FLASH, SILVERLIGHT, or JAVASCRIPT.

16. A method for the limited-scope rendering of a World Wide Web page comprising code for generating one or more page elements, the method comprising:

providing a split view user interface comprising a first section showing the code and a second section showing the page elements;

receiving a request to zoom into a portion of the code; and

in response to the request to zoom into the portion of the code, displaying only the portion of the code in the first section and displaying one or more of the page elements generated by the portion of the code in the second section.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a request to zoom out of the portion of the code; and

in response to the request to zoom out of the portion of the code, displaying the code in the first section and displaying the one or more page elements in the second section.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a request to zoom into a selected one of the page elements; and

in response to the request to zoom into the selected one of the page elements, displaying a portion of the code corresponding to the selected one of the page elements in the first section and displaying only the selected one of the page elements in the second section.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

providing a code view user interface comprising a single display section for displaying the code;

receiving a request to zoom into a portion of the code displayed in the code view user interface; and

in response to receiving the request to zoom into the portion of the code displayed in the code view user interface, displaying only the portion of the code in the single display section for displaying the code.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

providing a design view user interface comprising a single display section for displaying the page elements;

receiving a request to zoom into one a selected one of the page elements displayed in the design view user interface; and

in response to receiving the request to zoom into one a selected one of the elements displayed in the design view user interface, displaying only the selected one of the page elements in the single display section for displaying the page elements.