Exploring State Diagram-based Web Browser Programming
Yuka Obu, Mizuaki Yamamoto, Tatsuhiro Yonekura, Masaru Kamada, Shusuke Okamoto · 2007
Over the last few years a great deal of interest has focused on a major paradigm shift in World Wide Web-based services referred to as Web 2.0. In marked contrast to the earlier Web, in Web 2.0 sites become sources of information and functionality that enable users to create new content of their own. Consequently, users are now looking for more versatile browsers that will let them edit and display content based on their own preferences. This motivated us to develop a state diagram-based Web browser programming scheme that supports the close interaction between the end-user and Web content. Using state diagrams to represent browser behavior is easier for end-users with little or no programming experience to grasp than text-based programming systems.