[Concept UI] Windows WebView

[gxsaurav]

You can read this on my blog.

Web 2.0 based applications are all over these days. Whether it is AJX based Gmail or Yahoo Mail beta or Windows Live Mail or the new released iPhoto 08 in Apple .Mac service. These applications are web based & usually are self contained, which means they are platform independent except for few cases. In such a scenario they are standalone & can work on there own.


People usually use browsers to access this kind of content. They open whatever browser they want & open a page like Yahoo Mail & login to it, then work on that web based application which acts like it is a native application for the OS. But do we need a browser UI for that? Here is where my concept UI comes into play, Windows WebVIew.

Windows WebView is nothing but a front end to IE 7 in Windows Vista. The difference is that that you are not supposed to browse normal webpages in it cos well….there is no toolbar. This is simply a new browser frontend made specifically for Web 2.0 based application. This is how the Main application looks like.




A user simply opens the WebView application & opens a site such as Yahoo Mail & enters the user name & password. The user name & password can also be saved in Windows Password Center for better security & management. Once the password & username are filled, user can simply click on the Add Favorite icon to add this to the favorite List.



Next time a user can simply click on the link in the Favorite sidebar & it will automatically open & fill the username & password & open the Web application for you. When you are done, sign out & close WebView.



Just my first attempt, what else do you guys think I should add/remove

[aryayush]

What are these anyway - screenshots of Internet Explorer 7?!

[tarey_g]

Frankly , i dont see any use of such app if it existed . If i can do it my browser i wont use such app for specific stuff.

[gxsaurav]

This is just another front end to IE 7. It is a browser after all but the way it is made, it is for Web 2.0 applications. You can run them in this better & manage instead of a broswer