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Case: (For windows) You are about to prototype some screens in a user dialog. Make a folder. Open a text editor, preferably one with HTML syntax coloring, make some rough HTML and save the file with ending .hta to the folder. Close the editor. Open the folder. The icon you see represents this file. Now double-click it to view it or right-click and select a suitable program to edit. Maybe you'll need to attach the file extension to a editor program, for which there are several options. Notepad++ is a nice free editor. What just happened here? Microsoft supplies a mshta.exe file which use your file as input. HTA files may contain dynamic HTML and run as trusted applications via mshta.exe. So basically, it is like an Internet Explorer view, but much faster and in trusted mode. F5 works to reload the file. This prototyping tool is simple and fast. It supports HTML, CSS, Javascript, Visual Basic Script and more. For more information: 1) Wikipedia, HTML Application - ...

To all next generation browser projects. Please implement auto zoom . When browsing pagesfrom different web sites, this feature would zoom the page, both text and images, to a predefined readable font size. This feature is particularly useful when using a laptop in mixed configurations like sometimes with an additional monitor, and sometimes alone. The distance from the user to the monitor may differs between these two situations and thus the readable font size matters. Also, please test this with different Windows display DPI configurations. With greater display resolutions, I guess more and more people will use 120dpi instead of the default 96dpi.