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m.Site: efficient content adaptation for mobile devices

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Middleware '12: Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference

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Published: 03 December 2012 Publication History

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Building a mobile user interface can be a time consuming process for web site administrators. We present a novel approach for adapting existing websites to the mobile paradigm. In contrast to existing technologies, our approach aims to provide a trio of functionality, ease of use, and scalability for large web communities. A site administrator visually selects objects within a web page, and assigns one or more attributes to page objects from a rich collection of pre-defined page modifications. Our proposed system then generates code for a multi-session, php-based proxy server to provide dynamic mobile content adaptations based on the attributes selected. The modifications encapsulate complex page interactions and provide a simplified interface to mobile users. The proxy server is augmented with a highly efficient and standards-compliant browser residing on the server to interpose on behalf of a resource-constrained mobile client. Adaptations such as pre-rendering of content can be cached and shared across users to amortize load. We build a prototype and evaluate its efficacy on a complex web application driving a busy online community with nearly 66,000 members.

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Middleware '12: Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference

December 2012

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ISBN:9783642351693

Editors:
Priya Narasimhan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Peter Triantafillou
University of Patras, Rio, Greece

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