On 8/16/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
It sounds as if you do *not* mean "embedded in a browser".
Do you, in fact, not mean that?
I guess I'm probably thinking something external to a browser - but almost certainly with browsing capabilities. However, much of what I'm picturing could possibly be carried out with some sort of enhanced browser, even using a lot of greasemonkey, for instance.
So, yeah your three possibilities would be: - embedded in a browser, using javascript or something similar to provide more power - extending a browser, say by using mozilla to produce a custom wikibrowser - embedding a browser, using either a native windows (or possibly java based cross-platform windowy thing) application that interacts directly with the user, but also embeds some kind of browser component to render HTML and allow the user to, well, browse.
If that doesn't answer the question I'll try again. I'm trying to avoid imposing a solution to the general problem...
Steve