In popular web browsers today, following a link means a disruptive change in the user's workflow, replacing the current context with an entirely different one. - `Link titles`_ (in the HTML standard at least since 2.0) give additional information by the linking page's author about a link's destination - Focus+context views of the web as proposed by Mukherjea and Hara [#mukharjea97fcwww]_ give a 1'000ft view of the linking strucure (need to read & find out whether they show thumbnails, or what they show) - Fluid links [#zellweger98fluid]_ can be put in by the original author, or by the user [XXX ht'01], - In XLibris [XXX ht'02: going back in hypertext], recently visited pages are shown as thumbnails at the bottom of the window .. _Link titles: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980111.html