While keeping multiple levels of context is more orienting, at times the user may need to change focus on a particular set of pages deeper in the hierarchy. In the Elastic Windows browser, users might maximize a subhierarchy of pages to full screen, allowing more detail to be displayed. Pages at any level in the hierarchy can be maximized. For example, a user might initially focus on all research projects in the HCIL page, then on a particular research page, and then on all the participants of that project.
Users can also skip multiple levels and directly focus on a subhierarchy deeper in the hierarchy.
The maximize operation can be invoked from the window menu. Users can come back to the previous hierarchy by the return operation also selectable from the window menu. The return operation is more powerful than the conventional back operation in that users can skip multiple levels and see breadth as well as depth.