When I say virtual forums, I mean you can point Hijack to the forum of your choice, and it’ll parse it into it’s own forum under it’s own styles and rules.
This is the part of Hijack that is the most nebulous to me at this point, because there are so many ways it can be done.
This will also be the part of Hijack that allows the user to really get rid of the browser. It should, essentially recreate the forum of choice, thereby allowing the user to still browse topics, posts and threads. Of course, by doing it this way, the forum will now be under control of Hijack, allowing you to apply all of Hijacks robust features.
Jason went into some detail as to how this can be done with forums that don’t use common BBs or standards. He mentioned a training mode, where you can point Hijack to a particular element of the forum in question, and tell it that THIS is an avatar, THIS is a screen name, THIS is the post count, and so on. You should only have to do this once, but I can see a Hijack template where you could drag out a “ripcord” line (think Adobe GoLive) from the “avatar” space in Hijack, to the actual avatar in Safari. You just keep dragging these ripcords from the template feature to the corresponding feature in Safari (or whichever browser), until all the features are trained. Now you can save this as a Virtual Forum, and start posting!
