BROWSING IN MOBILES DHIVYA KHRISHNAN

Problem Addressed Browsing in mobiles – common use case Web authors not to be taxed Original Web site layout Avoid Excessive scrolling Knowing current position Eliminate unwanted links

Minimap Visualization Technique Internal and External constraints Based on CSS2 Formatting model 2 Steps a)Layout Scaling method ( 2 changes ) b)Overview of webpage

Merits and Demerits Horizontal Scrolling avoided Table overflow Disturbing page overview Maps unreadable What scaling factor? Useful of Wikipedia like sites Assumes 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