Browsing the Web with a Mail/News Reader

Marc H. Brown,
DEC Systems Research Center
130 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301

E-mail: mhb@pa.dec.com

This TechNote introduces WebCard, an integrated mail/news reader and Web browser. As a mail/news reader, WebCard is fairly conventional; the innovation is that Web pages are fully integrated in the mail/news reader. The user interface is based on folders, where an "item" in a folder can be a mail message, news article or Web page. When displaying a Web page, users can follow links, and the new pages will appear as items in the current folder. Users can copy and move items between folders, forward items, and can also use folders to organize material on the Web, such as hotlists, query results, and breadth-first expansions.

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