I'm back to evaluating the note management application NoteTaker for Mac OS X, now up to version 1.6. NoteTaker has long had a cool feature - when you classify an entry as a Web Page, NoteTaker draws an icon of an @ sign next to the item. Double clicking on that icon would replace the entry with the web page linked to in the entry's contents. In version 1.6, NoteTaker uses WebKit, the engine/API behind Apple's Safari web browser. The results not only look better, but you effectively get an embedded (and simplified) Safari browser in the page, with back/forward buttons, a location bar, and the ability to drag and drop a PDF of the current web page anywhere you want.
This reminds me of CyberDog! Safari is not Apple's first browser, nor is their simple HTMLKit and (post-AppleGuide) Help Viewer applications. CyberDog was made to show off the compound document system OpenDoc by providing OpenDoc parts for a web browser, a notepad (bookmarks on steroids), mail and news, FTP, etc. Using it, you could embed a web browser anywhere that supported OpenDoc parts. At the time, I thought it was kindof silly. But seeing it in action with NoteTaker makes me miss it. Again.
Some screen shots: NoteTaker, Web Page Entry Collapsed and NoteTaker, Web Page Entry Expanded. Some old screen shots of CyberDog can be found in this article (its the one shown in my NoteTaker screen shots).