browsing in mobiles dhivya khrishnan ([email protected])
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BROWSING IN MOBILES
DHIVYA KHRISHNAN([email protected])
Problem Addressed
Browsing in mobiles – common use caseWeb authors not to be taxedOriginal Web site layoutAvoid Excessive scrollingKnowing current positionEliminate unwanted links
Minimap Visualization Technique
Internal and External constraintsBased on CSS2 Formatting model2 Steps
a) Layout Scaling method ( 2 changes )
b) Overview of webpage
Merits and Demerits
Horizontal Scrolling avoidedTable overflowDisturbing page overviewMaps unreadableWhat scaling factor?Useful of Wikipedia like sitesAssumes high processing power in client
Adapting web pages for mobiles
Semantic structure of page found
Web page spilt to smaller blocks
Block detection at the high level
Explicit and Implicit separators
Index and sub pages generated
Merits and Demerits
Proxy/Server deployment (cache)
Readable text in index pages
Useful in a PDA
Useful with sub topics.
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
A proxy server solution
Summarizes information
User => Proxy => Server
Proxy Server and RSS
Proxy Server and Content Adaptation
Merits and Demerits
Useful for news websites
Proxy fails => problem
Bad display of tables
IMG: URL => clueless???
Conclusion
RSS used for information dense websites.
Minimap for websites with a mixture of images and text.
Web page adaptation technique => Multiple topics in website
Global view-port liked by users Proxy server deployment useful