Frogans “visit” your desktop without ever being installed on your computer. It’s kind of like making contact with extraterrestrials who pass through without ever setting up camp in your front yard. With extraterrestrials, communication is simple: everyone knows that they do it through telepathy – we’ve seen it on TV. For frogans we have the Frogans Player handling the communication.

The Frogans Player works a lot like a browser. It takes a frogans address (either from a hyperlink, or typed in by the user, or out of its own “Favorites” menu), locates the corresponding frogans on the Internet, loads the resources of that frogans’ home slide into active memory, and processes those resources (an FSDL document and the accompanying visuals) to bring the frogans to life on your screen.

But if the Frogans Player is a browser, it’s an odd one. While modern web browsers are complicated, plug-in-ready software behemoths, capable of processing and combining a plethora of media types, the Frogans Player will only deal with FSDL documents and their resources. Since FSDL speaks only FSDL, there’s no JavaScript, no CSS, no access to the system. And while modern web browsers are constantly downloading media to a cache on your hard drive, the Frogans Player keeps things virtual. It is incapable of allowing frogans slide content to be written on your hard drive.

Sounds arcane? Try telling that to an extraterrestrial who’s just traversed a zillion light years and a handful a parallel dimensions just to chew the fat with the farm kid who was a little late getting home that night. The extraterrestrial uses telepathy because, if he/she/it were to open his/her/its mouth to speak, it (I’ve settled on “it”) might take in some earthling bacteria and be gone in 60 seconds.

They must have known this about extraterrestrials at STG Interactive when they figured out how frogans should work. The Frogans Player reads the content right off the server and loads it into active memory without ever allowing it to be written anywhere on your system. In that way, frogans politely “visit” your desktop without so much as sitting on the couch. It’s almost as if they’ve made the voyage without ever leaving their hosts. Wow. So THAT’s how the aliens do it!