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If you are going to serve Curl pages from Apache, you must have access to the .htaccess file or otherwise be able to specify MIME types.

The support team at the Curl Developer Center suggests these:

AddType text/vnd.curl .curl
AddType text/vnd.curl.dcurl .dcurl
AddType text/vnd.curl.scurl .scurl
AddType text/vnd.curl.mcurl .mcurl
AddType application/vnd.curl.pcurl .pcurl
AddType application/vnd.curl.car .car

You may have to explain that these MIME types cannot affect any user who has not installed the Curl runtime on their PC.

You may have to explain that these are for Curl and have nothing to do with cURL from www.haxx.de

If your web hosting service does not provide for user-defined MIME types, there is likely no choice but to look for another service.

Remind them that you do not need access to .htaccess

Invite them to visit www.curl.com or to learn about the beginnings of Curl at M.I.T. many years ago.

Or invite them to do a Yahoo! search on RIA Curl

Over at eclectic-pencil there is a post covering the details of the LogiqueWerks demo of the forth-coming Aule Browser built using the Curl EmbeddedBrowserGraphic.

Expect features to appear daily because Curl is a high productvity environment.

You view the demo online or run a demo from your desktop here.

Looking at processes running under Windows, I see that when a Maxthon browser starts up and tries to process my bookmarks folders, its memory footprint blows through 90 MB. Meanwhile IE8 opens 3 processes, each near the 30 MB mark. But when I go to bookmark something for the first time in an IE8 session, then comes the big bite: only this time it is out of my workday as I wait for my bookmarks to load. At least with IE8 I can hop over into another session.

Online bookmark services do not yet seem to be the answer (and Maxthon eventually reports that I exceed their bookmarks limit) - at least not from the time I have put into Delicious and other such offering - even those revamped for Firefox.

So I will just have to try to do better with a Curl-based or a Rebol-based or an ICON-based browser (even Tcl/Tk may be in the running for this one). When I get a prototype ready, I’ll post a note. And hope that you bookmark it …

Over at LogiqueWerks Curl SSB pages there is a demo of browser pages running without the ability to swipe text and mail it anywhere. Internet Explorer 8 comes with accelerator tools for Evernote and such which are useful - but they are not always appropriate for pages with sensitive information.
The page at LW allows you to open a Curl applet page which remains in communication with the browser but has no text selection or context popup menus enabled.
The “Examples” button on that page opens in that same desktop window; closing the window returns you to your web page as does using the hyperlinks on the Curl applet pages.
Other examples can be found elsewhere in the LogiqueWerks pages. All require download of the Curl RTE

I have not been able to do the same for my blog at Curl.