Adapting Web pages for small-screen devices
Yu Chen; Xing Xie; Wei-Ying Ma; Hong-Jiang Zhang
Internet Computing, IEEE
Volume 9, Issue 1, Jan.-Feb. 2005 Page(s): 50 - 56
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIC.2005.5
Summary: We propose a page-adaptation technique that splits existing Web pages into smaller, logically related units. To do this, we must first solve two technical problems: how to detect an existing Web page's semantic structure, and how to split a Web page into smaller blocks based on that structure. To date, we've implemented our technique in Web browsers for mobile devices, in a proxy server for adapting Web pages on the fly, and as an authoring tool plug-in for converting existing Web pages. The Web page can then be adapted to form a two-level hierarchy with a thumbnail representation at the top level for providing a global view and an index to a set of subpages at the bottom level for detailed information.
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