BrowsaWorks Custom Browsers
Custom browsers can be designed to have a completely unique graphical appearance. The browser dialogue shape, layout, position and style of buttons and the colors used determine the appearance and this is of importance for organizational and corporate branding and image. This can provide a uniform appearance to staff intranet and Internet interfaces. They can be designed as slimline products with few buttons. For example additional buttons can be accessed using a button to reveal a button panel like a video controller.
Simple Browser
The functionality of a simple browser consists of differerent ways of manipulating the dialogue (browser frame) and the web content. Common actions which simple browsers such as Microsoft® Internet Explorer can provide in association with the dialogue include:
- centre in the monitor
- exit (stop the program)
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- maximize the area
- minimize the area
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The common functions which can be activated by buttons on a simple browser include:
- add to favourties
- back
- cancel
- copy
- favourites
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- find
- font size
- forward
- homepage
- open
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- organize favourites
- page setup
- print
- print setup
- properties
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- access address book
- access calendar
- access Internet call
- access email client
- access news client
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- select all
- refresh
- options
- source
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Medium Browser
A medium browser includes all of the "common functionality" listed above as a standard but includes modules launched from the browser as well as different states.
States
The browser dialogues, that is the appearance of the browser, are unique and their shape, content and the location and range of available function buttons can change by clicking on a button. So one browser dialogue can be transformed into another format according t the content.
Dynamic content monitoring
Browsers can respond to web content, so a change in a url or web content can, for example, change the shape and content of the dialogue, redirect the web content to a module or even block certain types of web content from being seen.
Hidden controls
Toolbars and buttons can be hidden when not needed so that more room is made available for "web space". By click on one or two buttons on the dialogue, arrays of buttons on tool bars can be made to appear in any required format. For example they can be like normal tool bars or video control systems.
Advanced browsers
Advanced browsers have all of the capabilities of medium browsers by also include multi-window structures with states and modules. They also can include the following capabilities.
e-Books
One of the dynamic dialogue formats can be an e-book to provide a convenient way to review sets of web pages which can be arranged onto a sequential book format with index.
Tabbed content
When several dialogues or popups are use to view, simultaneously, several web pages, these can be tabbed so that the user can switch from page to page at their convenience.
Multi-media
BrowsaWorks browsers can provide a dynamic dialogue or a whole application dedicated to the running of local DVDs, remote video streams and sequences of images in distinct and separate modules which are launched from the browser.
Unique identification
Each browser can be individually identified through internal coding so that a remote server is able to check on the "identity" or ownership of a specific browser.
Multiple mouse functions
The number of different actions which can be activate by a mouse can be greatetly enhanced using "movement" response. So by moving a mouse cursor over a button or moved away from a button can activate completely different actions depending upon whether or not the left or the right button is depressed or in released state. This means instead of having just 2 states the mouse has, when combined with movement, some 8 different states. This means that with a 10 button dialogue a mouse can trigger 80 different actions as opposed to 20.
Executing JavaScript
Buttons can activate the execution specific JavaScript functions contained on a web page (client side).
Executing programs
Buttons can activate any Windows® program on the same server as the browser.
Merged packages
Merged packages are services which include web content design and implementation designed in such a fashion that it is coordinated with the browser design and functionality (using simple, medium or advanced browsers).
Towards Virtual Clients
BrowsaWorks can provide a major ungrade in power through the integration of Seel-Telesis®-VCT into their browsers. Seel-Telesis®-VCT (Virtual Client Technology) enables the dialogue to manipulate the local operating system, other programs and programs on remote servers and even programs on remote PCs. Additional functionality includes web page tagging and sophisticated search functions. The power of VCT is such that the browsing function, although more advanced that conventional browsers, becomes secondary to this powerful management and data processing resource. Such programs are not called browsers but rather virtual clients. |