A user interface (UI) in the form of a single navigable window enables a user to navigate to and between multiple different functionalities that are provided by a single application program. Novel use is made of navigation model that manages the user's navigation activites to and between the different functionalities. Navigation instrumentalities enable the user to navigate among the different functionalities and include links to each of the different functionalities as well as browser-like navigation buttons. Context-sensitive command sets can also be provided along with the single navigable window. The context sensitive command sets include commands that automatically change as the user's computing context changes, e.g. as the user moves from functionality to functionality. The single application can be defined as a software platform that is extensible to receive and incorporate different functionalities. The functionalities can be provided as software modules that can be sent over a network such as the Internet. The extensible software platform provides a basis to offer a subscriber or fee-based service where different subscribers can, for a fee, access different functionalities via a network such as the Internet.

Single window navigation methods and systems

Methods and systems of providing information to computer users are described. In one embodiment, the methods and systems can provide a ranked list of favorite links. The list can be based upon the recency and frequency with which a user accesses items associated with the links. A most recently added favorites list of links is provided that is based upon when particular links were added to a user's favorites list. The methods and system can calculate a union of the lists to provide a collection of favorite quick links.

Methods and systems of providing information to computer users

Methods and systems for network-based or Internet-based software delivery are described. In one embodiment, an application program or software platform resides on a client and is configured so that it is extensible based on software extensions that are deliverable over a network such as the Internet. Various extensions can be developed by third party developers for incorporation into the program or platform.

Methods, systems, architectures and data structures for delivering software via a network

An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents. The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the table when being edited. Underlying the table UI, the architecture separates data handling functions from presentation functions. The architecture includes a table appearance manager to manage how the table appears in a document including such characteristics as table resizing, selection, cut, copy, paste, split, merge, table formatting and so on. The architecture also has a spreadsheet functionality manager to manage the spreadsheet functions for the table, such as recalculation, formula handling, sorting, referencing, and the like. The bifurcated architecture supports cross-table referencing, reference editing, automatic universal recalculation throughout all tables in the document, and nested table structures in which one table is nested within a cell of another table.

User interface for integrated spreadsheets and word processing tables

Methods and systems present commands to a user within a software application program by determining the user's context within the application program and automatically presenting in a user interface commands that pertain to the user's current context. When the user's context changes, the context-sensitive commands are automatically removed from the user interface. In one implementation context blocks and context panes are employed to present the commands.

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

■ XML (Extensible Markup Language) provides both a standards-based way to identify the information that is of importance in a particular application, and the ability to process information tagged according to highly user-specific requirements with general-purpose software, such as editing tools, composition engines, and electronic browsers. The power of XML comes in part from principles that guide the design of good XML applications: separation of format and presentation information from document markup; consistent and clear text tagging; context-dependent processing; and hierarchical structures. But these alone do not explain the real power of XML, which lies in the ability to create tag sets and markup languages customized to the needs of the particular application. A custom XML tag set allows the user to identify all of the types of information that are needed for search and retrieval, formatting, and tracking. Any type of information your end users may want to find, or not find, can be identified, and expensive distinctions among types of information that are not important to you are not made. Note, however, these phrases from the preceding paragraph: “way to identify”; “ability to create”; and “can be identified.” XML provides a way to do these things, but does not do them. XML should be thought of as a useful tool, but not as a solution to any problem. here seems to be as much excitement about XML as there has been on any related technology since the Web went public. The hype surrounding XML has created such unreasonable expectations that there are already people trumpeting its failure, primarily because it hasn’t become instantly ubiquitous. XML is being hailed as the future of the Web, the replacement for HTML, the replacement for Java, and the technology that will create precise Web searching. XML will be easier to use than SGML, more powerful than HTML, and will enable secure electronic commerce. XML is the Internet’s Silver Bullet—such is the hype. XML will not leap tall buildings at a single bound, nor will it solve all of the problems of retrieval on the Web. XML will transform the Web in much the same way barbed wire transformed the American West. Barbed wire didn’t do anything. But using barbed wire, a lot of people did a lot of hard work and changed the culture from one of open ranges to one of farms and property rights. XML is an enabling technology; well designed XML can provide a valuable tool in the effort to provide more precise and more powerful searching on the Web. XML will replace HTML in those situations in which HTML is insufficient to meet a need. XML software is easier to build than SGML software and more appropriate for Web environments, but authoring documents in XML is unlikely to be any easier than authoring in SGML. The ease of authoring in both XML and SGML is dependent on how well the document structure meets the author’s needs and on how graceful the authoring application is. And interchange of information in XML depends on the development and promulgation of shared XML tag sets.

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