Walter will intercept keystrokes and insert text to the Web page being viewed. The idea is to turn the Web browser into a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Main uses for Walter might be as a replacement for a textarea in chats and bulletin boards or content management systems.
Walter is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of Mc Coney (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was released in 1996 as volume 3 in the series.