Web development tides are changing. It's not difficult to imagine kiosk popup windows riding the crest of a new wave of autonomous Web sites-sites with little or no reliance on browsers for navigation or core functionality, such as printing or searching. In effect, standalone Web sites.

This two-part article demystifies multi-window UI design, and includes cut-and-paste JavaScript code of practical windowed UIs that can run in both Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.