WEB CONTENT ADAPTATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES: A GREEDY APPROACH
Rajibul Anam, Chin Kuan Ho, Tek Yong Lim · 2011
Mobile internet browsing usually involves a lot of horizontal and vertical scrolling, which makes web browsing time-consuming. In addition to this, users may be interested in a section of a web page, which may not fit into the mobile screen. This requires more scrolling in both directions. In this paper, we propose to address this problem by re-arranging the geometric sequence of the blocks from a large web page while maintaining their semantics. Our proposed system, Web-adaptor, reduces unnecessary information by allowing its users to see the most relevant blocks of the page and provides the target contents. The Web-adaptor assigns profit to each object of the web page according to the user preferences. It also assigns a weight to each object of a block by analyzing the object’s elements. It uses a greedy algorithm to select the profitable blocks, and delivers them to handheld devices. The proposed solution improves web content accessibility and delivers the target contents to the users.