PDA Web Browsers: Implementation Issues
Ian Cooper, Royston Shufflebotham · Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) · 1995
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are not currently used as Web browsers. However, their portability and personal nature offer significant advantages over other environments. By directly addressing the perceived disadvantages of PDAs, we demonstrate that effective Web browsers can be developed using current technology. Keywords: PDA;WWW;Web; personal environment; overview; folding; StretchText; byte-range; HTML 1 Introduction Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) such as the Apple Newton are becoming increasingly popular for mobile computing. At the same time, the popularity of the World-Wide Web [BLCL + 94]is also growing rapidly. At present, most PDAs are isolated from the rest of the world. However, as increasing numbers of people want mobile Internet access, natural progression suggests that World Wide Web clients will be developed for PDAs. Apart from their obvious advantage of being portable, pen-based (or pen-supplemented) interfaces offer considerable advantages over any other...