Rover Mosaic: E-mail Communication for a Full-Function Web Browser
Abstract
The increasing availability and power of mobile computing devices are
creating a demand for network applications which can accommodate slow
or intermittently available network connections. A prototype system
for browsing the World Wide Web on such a network was implemented,
using caching, prefetching, and queued communications to hide
communication latencies. Electronic mail was used as the underlying
transport mechanism because of its ubiquitousness and fundamentally
queued operation. A modified user interface based on NCSA Mosaic was
designed to accommodate queued communications. The experimental system
was found to be well-suited to the task, as well as to have
significant advantages in the areas of reliability and user interface
functionality.
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