pported. Mifflin is a modern software equivalent that is more of a functional prototype than a product, and it is also unsupported. QuestMap offers faster response times and is arguably more stable, but Mifflin offers a number of graphical user interface (GUI) enhancements over QuestMap, such as a glyph marking that a node is transcluded, as well as other enhancements (see below). Mifflin is written in Java, including the ability to run as an applet through the browser. Mifflin is also Y2K compliant, which QM is not (date search no longer works).

over QuestMap:

XML, SQL, GIF/JPG, HTML, etc.). This is to enable a variety of interfaces and connections to external applications, data stores, etc. Interfaces can be made at the application, database, and network levels.

onstructs such as 'extended node types', behaviors can be added to creation/modification of certain nodes. Java programs can also be written to act on trappable events within the system. Forms and wizards can be added to automate certain functions.

lows a variety of HTML exports to be created through the GUI. With a few clicks, users can specify any number of views and produce web pages (or whole 'sites') with options such as graphics, links to external URLs, left navigation bars, clickable containing views at the node level, clickable metadata/tags/codes on the node level, etc.

r whole 'skins' can be selected and replaced. Coming releases will extend the level of customization (e.g. map backgrounds).

atabase. All data is directly accessible via either the Mifflin application, the database itself, or external JDBC or ODBC queries.

data. Nodes can have 'codes' (tags), which the app provides an editor for. Links have properties which are viewable on double-click. The UI provides viewers and editors for Containing Views, and displays what relationships have been made to nodes in different views.

For example, Mifflin users can search for nodes of certain type, created in certain date ranges, with certain keywords, tagged with certain attributes (or any combination of these).

any GIF or JPG graphic, including animated GIFs, photos, drawings, etc.

importing from Word and Excel, adding metadata on the fly.

state at present, but the parsers and converters are already in the code).