Alexandre Bergel (with help from other people like Stephanne Ducasse, and Colin Putney, who isn't here), is up to talk about the OmniBrowser framework - which he describes as a meta framework for building browsers. The examples are all in Squeak, but there is code for this in VW.

Here's Alexandre starting the talk:

The OmniBrowser consists of three main notions:

• Nodes - what my domain is
• MetaGraph - how do I navigate my domain?
• Actors - how do I interact with my domain?

Along with Filters and Definitions for describing and filtering nodes. There are some limitations:

• Navigation has to follow the left to right flow
• Would be difficult to implement Whiskers (Squeak) or the RB (VW, et. al)

On the other hand, lots of current Squeak tools have been built using this: changes, implementors, senders, variables, version... and a number of others.

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