Alternate Paradigm for Navigating the WWW Through Zoomable User Interface

web browsing has become extremely important in every field of life whether it is education, business or entertainment. With a simple mouse click, user navigates through a number of web pages. This immediacy of traversing information links make it difficult to maintain an intuitive sense of where one is, and how one got there. A zooming browser is designed in java to explore alternate paradigm for navigating the www. Instead of having a single page visible at a time, multiple pages and the links between them are depicted on a large zoomable information surface. Links are shown in hierarchy so that user can see the relationship of web pages with their parent and child nodes. Browser also maintains the history of links traversed.

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