[Dynapi-Widgetdev] Hello Everyone, I'm Back

[Cheston U. <che...@ya...>]

Hello Everyone,

For those who have been on the list since December (if
anyone), You may have remembered me. For those who
havn't, I'll introduce myself.

My name is Cheston Unnewehr, and I'm currently
volunteering as a webmaster for the local School. I
have been working on a project to emulate the Browser
windows that you can see at Desktop.com, where you
have little Internet Browsers, within your current
Browser (like IE).  I have currently found a way of
making the concept, and have carried it way beyond
what even I had expected.

So far, I have come up with a completely new way of
making dynamic pages, using DynAPI, called
WebDICE (Web-based Dynamic Interface Control Engine)

  It basically allows collapsable menus/frames (top,
bottom, left, & right), and a center area that
contains the main screen for the website.
All Menus can either have their HTML set directly, or
load an external HTML file into an IFRAME.
  In addition, you can open a browser-in-browser
window, that allows you to browse and search the
internet...WITHOUT leaving, or even reloading the
page!  In fact, nothing you do requires you to change
to a new HTML page, or even reload the current one! 
Furthermore, all images you use can be pre-loaded, and
the entire interface and pre-loading has a Progress
meter, which is incremented by the code itself, so no
matter how fast or slow the user's computer loads, the
meter is accurate.

Whew...this really sounds like a lot...and it is. This
is where you all come in.  Currently, it's all just
one huge Javascript.  I tried making widgets, like in
the tutorial, but for some reason they dont work.
I would love to make this code into a full-fledged
Widget.  Also, I'd love to know how to make it more
compatable with Netscape. So far, I only use IFRAMEs. 
I use them because they can be dynamically
resized(when nested in a DynLayer), they have built-in
automatic scrollbars, and can run Javascript on the
pages that they load.

 I'd love to know how to do the exact same thing in
Netscape.  


  Very soon, I will package up my code, and will make
it available for download, so you all can take a look.
 Until then, you all can see the prototype of this
engine here:

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/rainbow/index.htm

Please take a look, and let me know what you think.
Also, I've included comments for most everything, for
easy reading. Any suggestions, comments, or ideas are
GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
     Cheston U.



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