Main purpose
- Tab strip applet with submenu bar
- Tabs drive layers outside the applet, allowing
high-speed switching between different major sections
of a website
- Submenu bar instantly changes with the tabs
- Hyperlinks on the submenu bar load HTML pages into
the main tab display area
Appearance
- Tabs auto-sized to the text they contain
- Applet can adopt the system colours of the end-users
computer, blending into the browser bar colour scheme
- Applet can also have 1 of 8 internal colour schemes
- Submenu bar has rectangular mouse-sensitive highlights emulating the
menubars of operating systems and prompting user-interaction
System requirements
- Requires JDK 1.1 (most browsers have this)
- Reduced Mac compatibility
- Not compatible with Netscape 6
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Tab behaviour
- Layers driven by the tabs hold their state - form
elements and fresh pages remain in each tab while other
tabs are being viewed
- Pages in tabs are loaded before the tab is selected -
allows vital pages of a website to be preloaded
Menu contents
- Content supplied by an external index file conforming
to s standard imint.com format
- Limit of 50 menu entries in free version raised to 100 in commercial version
Free version
- Manufacturer credit
- Right-click link to manufacturer
- Minimum 600 pixel width
- Cannot be used on intranets
- Commercial version available as well
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