1. A digital computer for presenting a view of an object, said digital computer operating in a first operating system environment, said object represented by object data and said view represented by view data associated with said object data, said object being one of several types of objects and including a control defined by control data forming a part of said view data, said view data created in a second operating system environment different from said first operating system environment, and said control being of the type which may or may not be recognizable by the digital computer, said digital computer comprising: a display device; an input device for providing input signals from a user; a data storage memory device storing said object data and said view data, said stored view data including a tag identifying said control, and further including data for associating said object data and said view data; a processor device, connected to said display device, said input device, and said data storage memory device, for receiving said input signals from the user enabling accessing of said view data, for determining based on said tag identifying said control whether said control is recognizable by said processor device or not, and for providing output signals to said display device in accordance with said input signals such that a view of said object according to said view data is displayed thereon and further such that if said control is determined to be recognizable said view is displayed so as to include said control thereon, and if said control is determined to be not recognizable said view is displayed without said control thereon; and wherein said object's type is defined to include at least one property which may or may not be specified in said view data, said data storage memory device further including a default specification for said property, said view data further including a tag identifying said object's type, and said processor device further for identifying said object's type based on said tag identifying said object, for determining said object's at least one property from said object type, and for displaying said view in accordance with said object's at least one property as specified in said view data if said property is specified by said view data and otherwise displaying said view in accordance with said default specification of said property as stored in said data storage memory device.