An outline to be expanded and collapsed in a webpage(frame)?

[Alfred Lang]

Hello,

My question concerns future development perspectives for OO in 
conjunction with OmniWeb.

I am a longtime and happy till today user of MORE soon to switch from 
OS 9.2 to OS X. Besides all the other advantages I have the pet 
project to use put outline on the left frame of my homepage content 
and other pages (e.g. FAQs hierarchically organized questions 
programmed to present their answers in the main frame and/ort in 
separate windows). This would greatly ease the user's navigation and 
at any time give him cues about where she is and in what immediate 
environment, and also what related topics might be of interest.

The oldfashioned Microsoft Help system does such a thing, rather 
clumsily. Joust is a JavaScript plug that does quite well with small 
outlines but is no longer maintained by its author. Strangely, I have 
never seen a page on the Userland  & Co websites that does use such a 
thing as you would expect from their philosophy and skill.  Or am I 
wrong in this? And frankly, I feel, Frontier, Manila and Radio -- 
thes lands or languages are not easy to enter for somebody primarily 
concerned with the content of his stuff.

Now may question is: can I expect Omni Group to implement such a 
thing? And what are the prospects of coordinating OO and OW. I 
understand, OW is a browser. Yet OO is presented as an outliner to 
easily prepare html pages.

Thanks in advance for some look in the probable future!
Alfred

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