Wiki on my mind
I have a hankering to do a Wikipedia entry on frogans. It’s gonna go a little something like this:
Frogans
“Frogans” are windowless desktop environments for navigating the Internet. Access to a frogans requires an Internet connection and the Frogans Player, which is a client-side stand-alone freeware application designed to run on Windows, the Mac OSX, and Linux operating systems.
Among the aspects particular to frogans are 1) their access by means of a frogans address, a simplified addressing method by which they are located on the Internet over frogans networks, 2) their on-screen persistence, which keeps them on top of all other running applications, and 3) their scalability, such that their persistence need not interfere with other tasks.
Frogans, which are sets of “frogans slides”, can contain hyperlinks to other frogans (to be viewed with the Frogans Player), as well as to elements on other layers of the Internet, such as the Web pages (activating the end-user’s default browser), and email (activating the end-user’s email application).
Frogans are authored in the Frogans Slide Description Language (FSDL), which is based on XML. FSDL is free to use, and its specifications are free to obtain. FSDL documents provide the Frogans Player with the text elements, the image file references, and the image and text processing commands from which to render frogans on an end-user’s screen.
The Frogans Player locates frogans home slides on the Internet by means of a frogans address (ex: “frogans*myslides”). Simply put, the user indicates the address of the frogans that they wish to view. The Frogans Player sends a request to a frogans network system (FNS) server. The FNS server responds with the information about that frogans, such as its location and encoding, written in the Frogans Network System Language (FNSL), allowing the Frogans Player to bring it up on screen.
Frogans addresses are obtained from STG Interactive, the company who oversees the main frogans network, and who has developed and maintains the Frogans Player, FSDL, and FNSL.