Any sufficiently popular networked application will evolve to include a web browser. -- [WHD] ''although possibly this isn't an original observation'' Sounds very much like "Every program expands until it can send mail." -- you just applied it to a different area. :-) [TV] Honestly, I feel much like seeing application of the law known to every electrical engineer and of course many others to the world of software, alledgedly coming from Murphy: * Anything that '''can''' go wrong ''will'' go wrong at some point in time ... [SO] Experience has taught me that [Murphy] was an optimist .... :) [TV] And I guess copyright to such opinions is unavailable... [DKF]: The obvious conclusion is that adding a web-browser to an application is an example of things going wrong... :^D <> Suggestions