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BroadPage 2000 Professional Edition Bottom Line: The best solution for surfing multiple Web pages . Price: $44.95 BroadPage Corporation Broadpage Corporation BroadPage 2000 Professional Edition Page WinList: Web Browsers April 28, 2000 Megabrowser for Multitasking -- Bonny L. Georgia Users of Microsoft Office 2000 know that Microsoft has embraced what's known as the Single Document Interface (SDI)-every open Word or Excel document gets its own window-over the older Multiple Document Interface (MDI) standard with one window holding all the open documents. SDI makes apps feel more Web browser like, which fits with Microsoft's goal to commingle the worlds of Internet browsing with local file access. Ironically, BroadPage, which uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher rendering engine to display sites, makes MDI a true winner for browsing the Web. (click to see larger image) BroadPage's split-pane window views make it easy to surf several Web pages at a single time BroadPage's customizable windowpane interface is ingenious and easy to use. During installation it imports all existing Internet Explorer favorites and history files so you can begin surfing favorite sites immediately. While viewing one Web page, it's a cinch to make room for more by clicking and pulling the divider bars at the side of the main pane. Next, drag and drop links into the empty panes or access your bookmark list to open additional pages. You may run up to 100 Web pages at the same time within the BroadPage interface, or view a mix of Web pages and your favorite MS Office documents (complete with toolbars and editing capability). Of course, opening 100 panes at once is rather impractical even with a mammoth monitor for viewing them. It's much easier to keep four to eight open and swap pages around as necessary by dragging and dropping links from the Active folder on the left-hand DriveBar. Each open pane also gets quick access via a tab at the top on the toolbar, similar to those found for open apps (or for SDI applications like Word 2000) in the Windows Taskbar. Individual panes have all the navigation elements you'd expect in a regular browser, including back, forward, refresh and print, as well as familiar Windows maximize and minimize buttons. For your surfing convenience, you can open pages into one of several pre-generated site layouts (such as three stacked stock trading sites or two search engines) or save a super bookmark made up of the sites you like in the positions you prefer. As an added bonus (or perhaps because you need to give up your entire desktop to use the program as intended), BroadPage crams more than Web page access into its interface. The left hand column is home to the DriveBar, a place for quick access to your IE favorites and history, your Windows Explorer folder tree, open documents, new layouts or the "Guide," a cramped list of hotlinked logos for just about every search engine in cyberspace. Though this master toolbar approach is a bit hard on the eyes, DriveBar clutter can be reduced by closing or expanding only the items you need. BroadPage isn't for everyone, but if you're a Web browsing fanatic, you'll find that BroadPage is a super way to give all your favorite sites room for a view. That's why we're adding it to the WinList.