Last week I told you guys about the changes that have undergone in my professional life as in the last months, and one big part of the change was joining the Artinsoft Research family and the chance to work with the Aggiorno team for a start.
In its first incarnation Aggiorno lives as a Visual Studio 2005/2008 add-in that assists Web developers in accomplishing complex tasks in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take.
As you can see in the following video, we put, famous blogger, Nikhilk Kothari's Web site into a test and show you how by just executing a set of aggiornings (this is how we call our smart refactorings) we were able to bring the Web site to almost full compliance and improved its accessibility.
Since developers can leverage their knowledge of the Visual Studio user experience, Aggiorno’s learning curve is gentle providing results right out of the box.
Getting your Web ready for the People and the Engines... all of them
Standards compliance and accessibility seats at the core values of what the team is doing and they want to help make it a reality to all web developers out in the wild.
Aggiorno is currently in public Beta, which translates to: out of the box Aggiorno can assist you with
- Adding Alternate Text To Images
- Assign Tab Index
- Converting Text To XHTML Lists
- Converting Text To XHTML Paragraphs
- Extracting And Merge Inline Style
But now that you are into making things the right way, Aggiorno can also automate the following tasks for you
- Fix Deprecated Elements For XHTML Compliance
- Replace CENTER Tag By Inline CSS
- Replace FONT Tag By Inline CSS
- Update Deprecated Attributes
- Update Other Deprecated Tags
- Fix Syntax Errors For XHTML Compliance
- Fixed Malformed Entities
- Replace Characters With Entities
- Make Tags Lowercase
- Make Attributes Values Quoted
- Use Default Attribute Values
- Fix Tag Structure For XHTML Compliance
Just like that, right click on your pages, click Aggiorno, choose the aggiorning you want to run and let Aggiorno do it's magic and your Web site is nearer to its nirvana of accessibility and compliance.
Here is a teaser on how it works.
Oh and one more thing... Aggiorno works on XHTML, ASP.NET and even PHP source code, so go call it for a wide of options.
Under the covers
Aggiorno was born as an initiative to provide means of productivity and reliability to the masses in a straight and user friendly way. It's tag line is "Improving the Web one tag at the time" and the team perform to make it a reality to the thousand of web developers out there.
Aggiorno is powered by the same technology that Artinsoft has used throughout its more than 10 years of experience transforming businesses code source from different platforms like Java, PHP and Classic ASP into the .NET Framework in both simple and quite complex scenarios.
The Sky is the limit
The cool thing about Aggiorno is that because of they way it is architect, it provides the team with the necessary flexibility to integrate Aggiorno's core engine with different platforms, having a straight separation between the engine and its presentation layer, allowing the team with the chance to come up with different form factors, therefore providing with its power to a wide variety of audiences.
Now what?
So now that you are so out of your mind with what Aggiorno can do for you, here is where you can go and learn more about it and let's us know what do you think about.
- Learn more about Aggiorno and how it works
- Access to the Aggiorno channel in blip.tv and see how it works
- Subscribe to the team's blog to learn more about standards, accessibility and to have access to Aggiorno news at once
