The Zoom Browser: Presenting a Focus+Context View of World Wide Web Documents

The Zoom Browser is a novel Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) browser for the World Wide Web (WWW). Utilizing a new focus+context visualization technique, called flip zooming, the Zoom Browser is capable of giving a focus+context view of large documents and of displaying multiple HTML documents simultaneously. Compared to traditional methods for navigating large documents, such as scroll bars, flip zooming offers advantages such as giving a contextual overview and allowing instant access to any part in a document. It also offers advantages over previous focus+context methods for presenting large documents, including less deformation of text and improved real-time performance. The Zoom Browser is written in Java which allows easy integration with other WWW-based applications.