Input content to application via web browser

Abstract

The disclosed architecture allows markup language (e.g., HTML) pages to facilitate the insertion of content (e.g., text) into an application to which an input method is attached. In this way, a plug-in developer can implement any UI look and behavior using a web page language (e.g., HTML), communicate with a backend datasource just as a regular HTML page, and perform this using any suitable technology. Since the web page is stored in a web server and downloaded to client on-the-fly, install is minimal and users can use the latest version automatically. A broker component receives data derived from code authored in the programming language and embedded in a markup language and provides the additional arbitrary data to the application.

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