diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer0_Javascript/README b/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer0_Javascript/README
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+the javascript files doing the actual in file editing and rendering.
diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer1_toolkit/README b/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer1_toolkit/README
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+first example will be Qt
+
+Code will be moved in from other experiments
diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer2_API/README b/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer2_API/README
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+The API will center around the current javascript
diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer3_Handling/README b/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer3_Handling/README
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+handling is independent of the actual graphic representation.
diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer4_Docformat/README b/experiments/editorFramework/src/Layer4_Docformat/README
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+Connection to the DocFormat library
diff --git a/experiments/editorFramework/test/README b/experiments/editorFramework/test/README
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+test setup for the editor framework