MULTISTAGE CUSTOMIZING OF WEB-BASED APPLICATION IN A BROWSER INDEPENDENT OF PLATFORM AND OPERATING SYSTEM

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for customizing a web-based application in a browser by primary user for use by secondary user independent of either user's platform or operating system. A system customizes a web-based application by retrieving an application template defined in markup language supported by the browser and having a plurality of elements, altering one of plurality of elements, storing a user data element indicative of the alteration to the element, and associating the user data element with the primary user. The user data element is published as a seed data element associated with the primary user. The secondary user can access the template and the seed data element associated with the primary user in a browser of the secondary user' s platform such that the template and the seed data element associated with the primary user together represent a customized web-based application.