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Powerful User Experience
While panFora requires only popular standard web browsers, panFora's user Interface has been crafted to work-like and offer the power of familiar desktop applications. At each user's option, panFora can also be made to work-like more traditional web-based applications.
A number of valuable technologies, cutting-edge by today's web application standards but familiar to desktop application users, have been incorporated into panFora.
For example:
- powerful and consistent multi-frame based navigation (similar to Outlook and Eudora).
- popup windows allow the user preserve the context of interactions.
- automatic update of frames and windows.
- integrated novice and expert modes to incrementally allow access to more powerful features.
- context sensitive help throughout.
- option to recover text edits upon accidental window closures before saving or posting.
While panFora may magically look and feel like a desktop application, there are no special applications to install. User deployment is as quick and simple as clicking on an email hyperlink or typing an URL in the web browser. panFora's ability to use frames and popup windows effectively has numerous advantages. Reading and navigation within a forum, to and from any messages in the frame-based view, is fast and easy. Using panFora's "You-Are-Here" feature, a user can never become lost; one always know where any message is organized within the forum. With panFora's ability to pop up a window from any web page on your website, users can write comments and messages without losing the context of the content on that page. In total, panFora's unique way of integrating discussion with web content has been proven to yield more meaningful conversations and collaborations.
What is the magic behind this advanced user interface?
panFora employs powerful user-side browser-based Javascript processing throughout. However, unlike systems using client-side Java code which can be slow to download and load, panFora's interface starts up without delay. Moreover, panFora quickly updates user-interface elements without returning to the server for every update. The net effect is desktop applications-like responsiveness without added load to the server. Exceptional performance and a superior user experience is the outcome.
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