UX - Displaying Unknown Properties

[calummackervoy]

This will be a common UX problem in the app design

In the CharacterProfile component we currently serve the Character name and depiction, two properties that we assume will be common to all MUD characters

We want our client to be world-server agnostic, which means that we want to display whatever properties are on the Character, which we won't know for sure until run-time. Hence we would want to cycle through each triple on the Character and work out how to render it

We may need to model in the ontologies of the properties themselves whether (and how?) they will be displayed

[calummackervoy]

A couple of possible leads on this subject

We may be able to use shapes to generate a form, although auto-generating forms totally would lack the finesse of a human designer - for reading on this see this article on the subject

There is a (work-in-progress) UI ontology which could be used to represent and store form data, accessible from the ontology itself. When the form structure could be fetched in this way, it could be rendered following from the data's schema itself