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To: Scott Pedigo who wrote (7078)	2/28/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 16892

Scott - thanks for the plugin idea. Somehow, I hadn't thought of that. Originally, I'd wanted to write a C++ program, which could easily parse the HTML and could pick stuff out of the HTML. But that sounded like a big job. I had given some though as to how to do this in a browser context, and somehow I forgot about plugins. Only thing I could think of was a moniker interface, which would only work with MSIE. (That is killing a knat with a sledgehammer!) Now, in MSIE 4.x, you could actually do this in pure Javascript! MSIE lets you get at and pick apart every detail of the HTML in a page using Javascript. (Netscape, unfortunately, doesn't let you get down to this level.) The info screens could be sent to a hidden layer (oy, what a security nightmare!), picked-apart, and then displayed GIF and button-free. But these approaches are ALL silly, as the really easy way to do it is by having Datek add an optional POST parameter that can be used to indicate that you don't want the buttons and logo, etc. Given that, all sorts of interesting frame and layer-based interfaces become possible.