Rover Mosaic : e-mail communication for a full-function Web browser
Alan F. DeLespinasse · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1995
The increasing availability and power of mobile computing devices are creating a demand for network applications which can accommodate slow or intermittently available network connections. A prototype system for browsing the World Wide Web on such a network was implemented, using caching, prefetching, and queued communications to hide communication latencies. Electronic mail was used as the underlying transport mechanism because of its ubiquitousness and fundamentally queued operation. A modified user interface based on NCSA Mosaic was designed to accommodate queued communications. The experimental system was found to be well-suited to the task, as well as to have significant advantages in the areas of reliability and user interface functionality. Thesis Supervisor: David K. Gifford Title: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 The Rover project : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 1.2 Other related work : : : : : : ...