A method for an electronic device with a processor and a touch-sensitive display comprising a display area, a non-display area and a touch-sensitive overlay covering the display area and the non-display area, wherein the non-display area extends around the display area, wherein a boundary is disposed near a periphery of the touch-sensitive display, the boundary being a region or band along a margin of the touch-sensitive overlay, the method comprising: displaying information associated with a first application in the display area; detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display and determining touch attributes including a start location of the gesture; determining whether the gesture is a meta-navigation gesture associated with a second application based on whether the gesture crosses the boundary, by: when the detected gesture has the start location at the margin of the touch-sensitive display and travels across the boundary, determining that the gesture is the meta-navigation gesture; when the gesture is determined to be the meta-navigation gesture, displaying information associated with the second application in the display area, otherwise forwarding touch data related to the gesture to the first application, and the method further comprises determining with which application the meta-navigation gesture is associated based on the start location of the meta-navigation gesture, wherein when the meta-navigation gesture originates near a left, center of the touch-sensitive display and follows a generally lateral path, the method further comprises determining that the second application is a previous application, the previous application being a previous application in a grouping or an application associated with information previously displayed, and displaying the information associated with the second application comprising reducing in size information associated with the first application to provide a visual cue of the previous application prior to replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application, and replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application as the meta-navigation gesture continues. displaying information associated with a first application in the display area; detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display and determining touch attributes including a start location of the gesture; determining whether the gesture is a meta-navigation gesture associated with a second application based on whether the gesture crosses the boundary, by: when the detected gesture has the start location at the margin of the touch-sensitive display and travels across the boundary, determining that the gesture is the meta-navigation gesture; when the gesture is determined to be the meta-navigation gesture, displaying information associated with the second application in the display area, otherwise forwarding touch data related to the gesture to the first application, and the method further comprises determining with which application the meta-navigation gesture is associated based on the start location of the meta-navigation gesture, wherein when the meta-navigation gesture originates near a left, center of the touch-sensitive display and follows a generally lateral path, the method further comprises determining that the second application is a previous application, the previous application being a previous application in a grouping or an application associated with information previously displayed, and displaying the information associated with the second application comprising reducing in size information associated with the first application to provide a visual cue of the previous application prior to replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application, and replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application as the meta-navigation gesture continues. when the detected gesture has the start location at the margin of the touch-sensitive display and travels across the boundary, determining that the gesture is the meta-navigation gesture; when the gesture is determined to be the meta-navigation gesture, displaying information associated with the second application in the display area, otherwise forwarding touch data related to the gesture to the first application, and the method further comprises determining with which application the meta-navigation gesture is associated based on the start location of the meta-navigation gesture, wherein when the meta-navigation gesture originates near a left, center of the touch-sensitive display and follows a generally lateral path, the method further comprises determining that the second application is a previous application, the previous application being a previous application in a grouping or an application associated with information previously displayed, and displaying the information associated with the second application comprising reducing in size information associated with the first application to provide a visual cue of the previous application prior to replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application, and replacing the information associated with the first application with the information associated with the previous application as the meta-navigation gesture continues.