NDLI: Web browsing on small displays (2003)

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Web browsing on small displays (2003)

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Author	Lee, Dik Lun Hoi, Ka Kit Sing, Wing Wong, Dicky Kong, Hong
Abstract	Mobile computing has attracted attention in the past few years owing to technology advances. However, viewing documents on a mobile device isn’t easy because of the limited display size, CPU power, and bandwidth. This is an obstacle for wireless Web browsing because there is no automatic transformation of HTML 1 documents designed for display on large screens to small PDA screens. The same problem occurs in devices for Web access (or Web-like access) on television. Although televisions are generally larger than most computer monitors, the relatively low resolution and long viewing distance reduces the amount of information they can display. In this article, small displays are devices that display a small amount of information for comfortable user viewing, because either the screens are physically small or they have very low resolution. Small displays increase the burden on Web page authors and application designers because they must consider all possible display capabilities of user devices when creating a Web page. To ease such tasks, this article presents an automatic document segmentation and presentation system. The DSPS has three primary
File Format	PDF
Volume Number	4
Journal	IEEE Distributed Systems Online
Language	English
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Small Display Low Resolution Wireless Web Browsing Presentation System Mobile Computing Small Amount Long Viewing Distance Large Screen Automatic Transformation Computer Monitor Web Page Author Web Access Past Year Technology Advance Limited Display Size User Device Small Pda Screen Cpu Power Comfortable User Viewing Application Designer Web-like Access Possible Display Capability Mobile Device Isn Web Page Automatic Document Segmentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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