Digestor: Device-independent Access to the World Wide Web (1997)
| Venue: | Proc. WWW-6 |
| Citations: | 97 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Bickmore97digestor:device-independent,
author = {Timothy Bickmore and Bill N. Schilit},
title = {Digestor: Device-independent Access to the World Wide Web},
booktitle = {Proc. WWW-6},
year = {1997},
pages = {655--663}
}
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Abstract
Digestor is a software system which automatically re-authors arbitrary documents from the World-Wide Web to display appropriately on small screen devices such as PDAs and cellular phones, providing device-independent access to the Web. Digestor is implemented as an HTTP proxy which dynamically re-authors requested Web pages using a heuristic planning algorithm and a set of structural page transformations to achieve the best looking document for a given display size. 1. Introduction Access to World-Wide Web documents from personal electronic devices has been demonstrated in research projects [2,10,17,18], and is now becoming a commercial reality. General Magic's Presto!Links for Sony's MagicLink, AllPen's NetHopper for the Newton and Sharp's MI-10 (Figure 1, shown at right), all provide WWW browsers for PDA class devices, while the Nokia 9000 Communicator and Samsung's Duett provide Web access capabilities from cellular phones. Figure 1. Digestor: Device-Independent Access to the W...
