Mosaic
In Netscape, the user has the option of either choosing add from the Bookmark menu when on the desired page, pressing the hotkeys Control-A, or, if the page is not currently loaded, adding the URL manually from the BookmarksGoTo screen. This screen also allows the user to update currently stored bookmarks.
To return to a bookmarked page, the user has three options:
The desired page is then accessed by the viewer.
An interesting aspect to the Netscape bookmarking system is the visual editor included in the BookmarksGoTo screen. This editor allows customization of the bookmark listing with such features as breaks in the listing, and categorizing the links into submenus that appear of the main list. This allows for manageable collections of addresses, rather than a simple list that would go a few feet off the bottom of the screen!
Mosaic's system of cataloguing bookmarks on its hotlist is fairly similar in concept to that of Netscape, but with one intriguing difference. Mosaic allows the user to put bookmark categories on the menu bar. This allows for very quick access of favorite sites.
This application does remarkably well considering the crude nature of it's interface. To add a bookmark, the user simply presses 'a' and is given the option of whether to save the document, the link to the document, or to abort the save. If 'save link' is chosen, the bookmark file is updated, and the user is free to continue.
To return to one of these saved locations, the user presses the 'v' key to view his bookmark file. This file is presented in the standard HTML format, and the user just scrolls through the list until the desired entry is chosen. All that remains then is to follow that link.
Due to the simple nature of the bookmark system, it is easy to use, but it is also limited in it's capabilities. There is no way to nest bookmarks, and to delete an entry, the user must use some UNIX text editor to manually edit the bookmark file. The same procedure is executed to insert a link that is not currently displayed.
OmniWeb is somewhere betwixt Lynx and Netscape in bookmarking. The user can save his favorite sites to a predefined or default file. This file can then be accessed with a single command and displayed in the HTML format. The links are followed by choosing the appropriate entry.