1. A method for expediting access to a document in a client-server network environment, comprising: at a client: monitoring a user's browsing activities within a currently displayed document having links to associated documents, including monitoring proximity of a user-controllable pointer to one or more of the links in the currently displayed document; prior to user selection of any respective link in the currently displayed document: identifying a link satisfying predefined criteria, the predefined criteria including proximity criteria with respect to the user-controllable pointer, and transmitting to a server a request for a document corresponding to the identified link.
1. A method for expediting access to a document in a client-server network environment, comprising: at a client: monitoring a user's browsing activities within a currently displayed document having links to associated documents, including monitoring proximity of a user-controllable pointer to one or more of the links in the currently displayed document; prior to user selection of any respective link in the currently displayed document: identifying a link satisfying predefined criteria, the predefined criteria including proximity criteria with respect to the user-controllable pointer, and transmitting to a server a request for a document corresponding to the identified link. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring the user's browsing activities within the currently displayed document includes determining whether a user-controllable pointer has hovered over a predefined region associated with a link in the currently displayed document for at least a predefined threshold amount of time.