Came across a new web browser for OSX today, called Plainview.
It's based on WebKit, attempts to fill an interesting niche: that of presentations. a few browsers have some form of full-screen mode, and some even have "Kiosk mode". Plainview, however, is full-screen by default. While this in itself isn't particularly remarkable, it does have one really nice feature: presentation mode.
Presentation mode allows you to build up a queue of sites, much like you would slides for a Powerpoint/Keynote presentation. You can then move between these "slides" by the use of hotkeys, removing showstoppers like typing URLs, or pausing to load bookmarks. I guess it's similar to that of tabbed browsing, but without all the clutter.
The marketing blurb on the site seems to place more emphasis on the full-screen part, and the presentation mode is presented more as an afterthought. Also, their screenshots don't do much to recommend the product from a visual standpoint. However, for what appears to be more of a proof-of-concept app than anything serious (for now, at least), it looks like a great idea, and one worth following.
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