SRC Research Report 139a

WebCard: Integrated and Uniform Access to Mail, News, and the Web

Marc H. Brown

This report describes 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 into the mail/news reader. The user interface is based on folders, which can contain mail messages, news articles or Web pages. Folders can be used to organize material and to present the pages returned by commands such as

search" and "auto surf.

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