Display technologies that separate the underlying functionality of an application
program from the graphical display process, thereby eliminating or reducing the
application's need to control the device display and to provide graphical user
interface tools and controls for the display. Additionally, such systems reduce
or eliminate the need for an application program to be present on a processing
system when displaying data created by or for that application program, such as
a document or video stream. Thus it will be understood that in one aspect, the
systems and methods described herein can display content, including documents,
video streams, or other content, and will provide the graphical user functions
for viewing the displayed document, such as zoom, pan, or other such functions,
without need for the underlying application to be present on the system that is
displaying the content. The advantages over the prior art of the systems and methods
described herein include the advantage of allowing different types of content from
different application programs to be shown on the same display within the same
work space.
