Better text formatting for the mobile web with javascript

Felix Angerborn · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2015

As people read more and longer texts on the web, the simple formatting options that exists in todays browsers creates worse results than necessary. On behalf of Opera Software in Linköping, a better algorithm has been implemented in Javascript with the purpose of delivering a visually better experience for the reader. The implementation is first and foremost for mobile devices and therefore a large part of the thesis has been the evaluation and optimization of performance.

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