Web Content Adaptation for Mobile Handheld Devices.

The article discusses methods to adapt web content for viewing on mobile handheld devices like cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. When developing for mobile devices, designers must take into account their typically low bandwidth and small screen size and computing ability. The auth...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 75 - 80
Autor principal: Dongsong Zhang
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2007
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Sumario:The article discusses methods to adapt web content for viewing on mobile handheld devices like cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. When developing for mobile devices, designers must take into account their typically low bandwidth and small screen size and computing ability. The author details several techniques to improve content for view on mobile devices, including the adoption of a push model, which automatically delivers content to users, and developing sites to automatically adapt to each user's access method.