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8 November 2001 WebAlchemist: a Web transcoding system for mobile Web access in handheld devices
Yonghyun Whang, Changwoo Jung, Jihong Kim, Sungkwon Chung
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Proceedings Volume 4534, Optoelectronic and Wireless Data Management, Processing, Storage, and Retrieval; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.448023
Event: ITCom 2001: International Symposium on the Convergence of IT and Communications, 2001, Denver, CO, United States
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of WebAlchemist, a prototype web transcoding system, which automatically converts a given HTML page into a sequence of equivalent HTML pages that can be properly displayed on a hand-held device. The Web/Alchemist system is based on a set of HTML transcoding heuristics managed by the Transcoding Manager (TM) module. In order to tackle difficult-to-transcode pages such as ones with large or complex table structures, we have developed several new transcoding heuristics that extract partial semantics from syntactic information such as the table width, font size and cascading style sheet. Subjective evaluation results using popular HTML pages (such as the CNN home page) show that WebAlchemist generates readable, structure-preserving transcoded pages, which can be properly displayed on hand-held devices.
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Yonghyun Whang, Changwoo Jung, Jihong Kim, and Sungkwon Chung "WebAlchemist: a Web transcoding system for mobile Web access in handheld devices", Proc. SPIE 4534, Optoelectronic and Wireless Data Management, Processing, Storage, and Retrieval, (8 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.448023
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KEYWORDS
Hand-held displays

Data storage

Prototyping

Image segmentation

Internet

Computing systems

Lithium

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