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The complexity of modern computing assumes a human-machine interface that is capable of accepting potentially extensive and complicated commands from its human operator and relaying vast quantities of information back to the user. This places a tremendous load on the user interface components which are inherently limited in their information throughput. To counteract this, software architects have devised ways to stretch the envelope and present more information to the user by means of segmentation - using scrolling and tabulation. Both ways have drawbacks: scrollable views tend to be non-uniform and slow in navigation while tabbed panes focus the user's attention on one area and obfuscate the rest. Both have one thing in common: lack of scalability in their inability to cope with user interface demands of large software systems.... read more