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  1. Philipp Bunge. Scripting Browsers with Glamour. Master's Thesis, University of Bern, April 2009. PDF 
    Abstract

    Browsers are a crucial instrument to understand complex systems or models. Each problem domain is accompanied by an abundance of browsers that are created to help analyze and interpret the underlying elements. The issue with these browsers is that they are frequently rewritten from scratch, making them expensive to create and burdensome to maintain. While many frameworks exist to ease the development of user interfaces in general, they provide only limited support to simplifying the creation of browsers. In this thesis we present a dedicated model to describe browsers that equally emphasizes the control of navigation flow within the browser. Our approach is designed to support arbitrary domain models allowing researchers to quickly define new browsers for their data. To validate our model we have implemented the framework Glamour which additionally offers a declarative language to simplify the definition of browsers. We have used Glamour to re-implement several existing browsers and to explore the creation of new browsers.