Desktop Web Pages Research Articles

Responsive text summarization

Responsive text summarization (RTS) is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop web pages to be read in response to the size of the device a user is browsing with. RTS implements the TextRank algorithm, so it can be exploited to generate very short summaries (more apt for mobile devices, where screen space is at a premium) or longer, more explicative summaries (more apt e.g. for phablets or laptops). We validate the feasibility of RTS on blog sites and show that runtime performance incurred by our current implementation is negligible. We also show that reading time can be reduced by a factor of 4 without impacting substantially the summary quality. In general, anyone interested in making their web contents concise but informative could benefit from this work.

Elaboração e desenvolvimento de um website sobre o teste da linguinha

RESUMO Objetivo: desenvolver um website sobre o “Teste da Linguinha”. Métodos: pesquisa aplicada, baseada no desenvolvimento ativo de um website com a finalidade de disponibilizar informações sobre o Teste da Linguinha. O desenvolvimento desse estudo consistiu de 3 etapas: conceituação, desenvolvimento e implementação. Para a etapa de conceituação foi definido o público-alvo, o objetivo, a análise e a definição do conteúdo por meio de revisão de literatura sobre anquiloglossia, avaliação do frênulo lingual em bebês e frenotomia. A etapa de desenvolvimento do website foi realizada por meio de editor de texto, digitalizador e editor de imagens. Para a construção das páginas Web foi utilizado o editor de texto Sublime. Para o teste das páginas em ambiente Internet foi selecionado o navegador Chrome. A fase de implementação envolveu a publicação do website na rede mundial de computadores. Resultados: o website “Teste da Linguinha” encontra-se implementado com domínio já registrado. O conteúdo desse website é destinado a pais/cuidadores e profissionais da saúde, orientando sobre o teste e sobre a língua presa, com base em estudos científicos. O referido website foi elaborado com layout responsivo, podendo ser acessado em tablet, telefones celulares com acesso à internet e/ou em computadores, independentemente do sistema operacional, por meio dos principais navegadores disponíveis, sem perder a funcionalidade. Conclusão: o website “Teste da linguinha” foi finalizado e pode ser acessado pelo endereço eletrônico www.testedalinguinha.com.

Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web

Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content. We have created a tool called MobileFinder which can be used to automatically detect mobile pages when given the URL of a desktop web page. We used this tool in an experiment to gauge what techniques popular websites are currently using to expose mobile content, and we incorporated the tool into Heritrix to demonstrate its usefulness to the web archiving community.

A classification of web browsing on mobile devices

The usage of mobile devices is growing fast. Different approaches have been proposed to improve the user experience of web browsing on mobile devices. This paper comprehensively reviews and compares various techniques for web browsing on mobile devices. We classify approaches of web browsing on mobile devices into three categories: platform-specific mobile design, web page restructuring and zooming based interaction. The platform-specific mobile design technique includes various mobile markup languages and interactive tools that facilitate web designers to manually create a mobile optimized web site. The web page restructuring technique intelligently adapts a desktop web page for web browsing on mobile devices. This technique first discovers closely related information (i.e., page segmentation) and then generates an adaptive layout that fits mobile devices. The zooming based interaction displays a desktop web page within a mobile screen as an overview, which allows a user to zoom in on a specific portion for a detailed reading. Based on the classification, we compare those browsing techniques on mobile devices from six perspectives, i.e., development cost, consistency with the desktop version, dynamic content supports, hardware requirements, display optimization and user operation. We further discuss eight popular commercial mobile browsers. A user study was conducted to evaluate different browsing techniques. This paper demonstrates the state of the art in web browsing on mobile devices, and compares different approaches. Based on the comparison and user study, we propose future developments in web browsing on mobile devices.

Device-aware desktop web page transformation for rendering on handhelds

This paper illustrates a new approach to automatic re-authoring of web pages for rendering on small-screen devices. The approach is based on automatic detection of the device type and screen size from the HTTP request header to render a desktop web page or a transformed one for display on small screen devices, for example, PDAs. Known algorithms (transforms) are employed to reduce the size of page elements, to hide parts of the text, and to transform tables into text while preserving the structural format of the web page. The system comprises a preprocessor that works offline and a just-in-time handler that responds to HTTP requests. The preprocessor employs Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to set default attributes for the page and prepares it for the handler. The latter is responsible for downsizing graphical elements in the page, converting tables to text, and inserting visibility attributes and JavaScript code to allow the user of the client device to interact with the page and cause parts of the text to disappear or reappear. A system was developed that implements the approach and was used it to collect performance results and conduct usability testing. The importance of the approach lies in its ability to display hidden parts of the web page without having to revisit the server, thus reducing user wait times considerably, saving battery power, and cutting down on wireless network traffic.