>I am trying to fully develop a concept of encapsulating all further user interface within an IE4 web browser or lookalike. This gives the benefit of sizeable panes, weblike menu trees, easy learning for new users and a host of other benifits at the GUI level too numerous to mention. Further benefits would come by sensing local data as "out of date" so that internet or intranet connections would automatically be made.
>Existing forms (most basic types -pageframes etc)would be contained within a frame and ideally would be resizeable.
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>If this project is not too ambitious, the early work of base classing would be critical as too would the selection of third party products and designing some sort of framework. I see several third party products that look very useful but who knows whats realy involved ?
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>Would anyone like to comment on feasibility or their experience on such projects.


Much of the work is already done for you. Check out Ken Levy's site: WWW.ClassX.Com. On that site - is something called WebExplorerX. I think this may prove to be very useful to you.