The browser's primary components are object classes that correspond to portions of the visual interface. In particular, because the components are well-defined objects, it is easy to reuse the objects in other applications. It took us less than a morning to modify Postcard, our mail reader implemented in Modula-3, to display messages containing HTML using this widget, rather than displaying the message with a standard text display widget. Clicking on a link causes Postcard to fetch the new Web page and insert the page in the current mail folder. Conclusion DeckScape has introduced a new metaphor for browsing the World-Wide Web.
Decks provide a flexible way to organize, view, and store large numbers of documents.
On the other hand, DeckScape lacks essential Web-browsing features, such as inlined images, forms, multiple fonts, and external viewers. Some of these deficiencies will be easy to address, but others will take quite a bit of effort. Because of these deficiencies, DeckScape has not replaced the standard Web browsers for the authors or their colleagues. We do not claim that DesckScape is the correct way to browse the Web. We do believe that organization and navigation is a weakness in current browsers, and we hope that the ideas introduced in this paper will help to advance the organizational and navigational capabilities of Web browsers.