User Interface

The Tsert::OS User Interface (UI) is centered around an HTML browser and a search-engine. The need to learn a new application is negated. Most users have known, for a long time, how to use a browser.  The browser is used to simply issue search requests for documents, as HTTP messages to the search-engine (t-searchd©®). The browser, the Thin::Window©®, or the search-engine takes care of invoking the appropriate application on these documents.

By default the user will interact with the Tsert::OS Thin-Window©®, which is essentially a stripped-down browser; otherwise a complete browser, such as Firefox,  is instantiated.

Our ultimate goal is to render HTML&CSS directly on the desktop, thus bypassing dialogs and windows.

The future Tsert::OS©® desktop will use widgets with scroll-buttons (being adapted to the automotive industry [ patent pending ] instead of scrollbars, see Tsert::OS Launcher with arrows). The Thin::Window will be part of the desktop, and will disappear into the background when search requests are not being issued, and reappear when the user clicks on the Thin::Window button found on the Tsert::OS Launcher, or when search results are returned.

Our own T-HTML©® and T-CSS©® (patent pending) enabled browser will also be developed, capabe of updating the document view (i.e. the HTML page displayed), by making requests for HTML document fragments.

By using T-HTML©® and T-CSS©® to update the document view , the need for Java scripts is minimized, thereby reducing the possiblity of intrusion by hackers through the Java engine, see marketing rationale. 

Document fragments [ Tsert document-fragment mimetype©® ] (e.g. tables, rows, columns, forms, paragraphs, etc. ) are generated by the Tsert::OS Templating Engine©®, and sent back to the browser which updates its document HTML tree by inserting the returned fragment at the appropriate level.

T-HTML©® and T-CSS©® makes updating the document HTML tree, through requests, possible; by simply using the url attribute currently associated with background, an attribute of the class construct. The new url©® [patent pending] is also extended to respond to time delays (in seconds), and signals that are now asssociated with script invocation.

T-HTML©® and T-CSS©® will also include extended OPTION and FRAME tags which will allow the inclusion of additional HTML code within these tags. These extension allow images and text to be combined in an OPTION entry of the SELECT fragment, and HTML code within FRAME tags. Our browser will also include  syntax highlighted TEXT AREA(s) in FORM(s).

SALT protocol attributes will be added to T-HTML©® SCRIPT tag consisting of the signature of the script and its associated salted key, see t-script .

The possibilities offered by T-HTML©® and T-CSS©® will allow Tsert::OS©® to restrict access of users to their own document, configuration, and password files; by having the user interact entirely through HTML pages.

Thin::Window©® gallery: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [16]

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