SRC Research Report 135a

DeckScape: An Experimental Web Browser

Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner

This report describes DeckScape, an experimental World-Wide Web browser based on a "deck" metaphor. A deck consists of a collection of Web pages, and multiple decks can exist on the screen at once. As the user traverses links, new pages appear on top of the current deck. Retrievals are done using a background thread, so all visible pages in any deck are active at all times. Users can move and copy pages between decks, and decks can be used as a general-purpose way to organize material, such as hotlists, query results, and breadth-first expansions.

This report has an accompanying videotape, report 135b:

DeckScape: An Experimental Web Browser

Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner

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