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Pioneer Report MDI
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Pioneer Report MDI browses the web using GRML. While
HTML is widely used, GRML uses the web differently.
When using a GRML web browser, web page content is
split in two. HTML displays forms, hyperlinks, text,
and images in its view. GRML takes the form out of the
view and displays it separately from other web page
content. This allows the browser to use the remaining
content for editing, cut/copy/paste, inserting and
deleting.
HTML defines HOW web page content looks. There is one
way it is displayed. This is called a display
definition markup language. GRML defines WHAT web page
content is. It is called a data definition markup
language.
In HTML, regardless of how many web browsers there
are, they all try to display a web page the same way.
In GRML, the web browser decides how to display a web
page. Why? GRML does not define a specific view of a
web page. That means different GRML web browsers
display the same web page differently.
With control of the way a web page is displayed and
separating the form from other web page content, a
GRML web browser is able to provide multiple views of
a web page. Use a list, or tree, or grid to view a web
page. This also allows a GRML web browser to support
other data definition formats and markup languages or
convert them, such as XML, RSS, CSV, or character-
delimited.
Unlike HTML, GRML supports "named" content. This means
support for multidimensional views of a web page. To
view 2 pages of message board results, or 4 pages of
auction listings, or 6 pages of headlines, a HTML web
browser loads each page. Viewing each web page
requires navigating between them. Using GRML, load the
content in one web page, each with its own "name".
Then, use a drop-down list to display the content
based on its "name".
Separating the form from other web page content,
support for multiple AND multidimensional views, and
compatibility with other data definition formats means
GRML web browsers offer another way to browse the web.
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