Patent ID: 8448074

Claim:
A method for displaying webpage portions on a desktop display within a computer graphical user interface operating on a computing device, comprising: rendering, by a rendering engine of a first web browser instance, a first webpage into a first pixel buffer of the first web browser instance, wherein the first pixel buffer is not a child object of a window viewable on the desktop; providing to the rendering engine of the first web browser instance characteristics of a second web browser instance that has a second pixel buffer that is a child object of a window viewable on the desktop, wherein the second web browser instance contains a Document Object Model (DOM) independent of a DOM of the first web browser instance; creating a first webpage portion desktop window; synchronizing a pixel output of the first webpage portion desktop window with portions of the first pixel buffer of the first browser instance; receiving a user input defining an area on the desktop display; and displaying the first webpage portion desktop window on a display of the computing device wherein creating a first webpage portion desktop window comprises creating the first webpage portion desktop window corresponding to the area on the desktop display defined by the received user input.