HTML5 and the Mobile Web

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Curran ◽  
Aaron Bond ◽  
Gavin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Uniform Solution

Accessing the Web from mobile devices is a popular practice. Trends show that the mobile space is becoming the method through which many consumers access content – both through native and web applications. These applications have expanded the browsing experience, but have also complicated the development process. A need exists for a simple, uniform solution which HTML5 is attempting to address. HTML is a mark-up language, now on its fifth edition, used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Because of the large increase in users of mobile devices, internet access on these devices is widely used. The creation of web sites, web documents, and applications are done with HTML5, as it is compatible with both PC and mobile device browsers. However, with its lengthy development process, it is not yet apparent if HTML5 can incorporate the demands of developers in a changing environment. This paper provides an overview of the use of HTML5 in structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web and compatibility issues on mobile browsers, key features, tool’s, and the advantages and disadvantages on the mobile web devices as well as the state of the mobile web.

Designing Web Applications

2005 ◽  
pp. 831-836
Author(s):  
Gustavo Rossi ◽  
Daniel Schwabe
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Information Delivery ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The World

The World Wide Web (WWW) has become the most widely used platform for application development and information delivery. Web applications have evolved from static, read-only Web sites to current, collaborative, mobile, and pervasive information systems. Most companies are automating their core work flows using Web technologies; new businesses supported by the provision of complex Web services appear every day.

scholarly journals A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Boudourides ◽  
Gerasimos Antypas
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Simple Simulation ◽  
The World

In this paper we are presenting a simple simulation of the Internet World-Wide Web, where one observes the appearance of web pages belonging to different web sites, covering a number of different thematic topics and possessing links to other web pages. The goal of our simulation is to reproduce the form of the observed World-Wide Web and of its growth, using a small number of simple assumptions. In our simulation, existing web pages may generate new ones as follows: First, each web page is equipped with a topic concerning its contents. Second, links between web pages are established according to common topics. Next, new web pages may be randomly generated and subsequently they might be equipped with a topic and be assigned to web sites. By repeated iterations of these rules, our simulation appears to exhibit the observed structure of the World-Wide Web and, in particular, a power law type of growth. In order to visualise the network of web pages, we have followed N. Gilbert's (1997) methodology of scientometric simulation, assuming that web pages can be represented by points in the plane. Furthermore, the simulated graph is found to possess the property of small worlds, as it is the case with a large number of other complex networks.

Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web

2009 ◽  
pp. 1537-1544
Author(s):  
August-Wilhelm Scheer
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Server Side ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
The Web

The emergence of what we call today the World Wide Web, the WWW, or simply the Web, dates back to 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system to manage information overload at CERN, Switzerland (Berners-Lee, 1989). This article outlines how his approaches evolved into the Web that drives today’s information society and explores its full potentials still ahead. The formerly known wide-area hypertext information retrieval initiative quickly gained momentum due to the fast adoption of graphical browser programs and standardization activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In the beginning, based only on the standards of HTML, HTTP, and URL, the sites provided by the Web were static, meaning the information stayed unchanged until the original publisher decided for an update. For a long time, the WWW, today referred to as Web 1.0, was understood as a technical mean to publish information to a vast audience across time and space. Data was kept locally and Web sites were only occasionally updated by uploading files from the client to the Web server. Application software was limited to local desktops and operated only on local data. With the advent of dynamic concepts on server-side (script languages like hypertext preprocessor (PHP) or Perl and Web applications with JSP or ASP) and client-side (e.g., JavaScript), the WWW became more dynamic. Server-side content management systems (CMS) allowed editing Web sites via the browser during run-time. These systems interact with multiple users through PHP-interfaces that push information into server-side databases (e.g., mySQL) which again feed Web sites with content. Thus, the Web became accessible and editable not only for programmers and “techies” but also for the common user. Yet, technological limitations such as slow Internet connections, consumer-unfriendly Internet rates, and poor multimedia support still inhibited a mass-usage of the Web. It needed broad-band Internet access, flat rates, and digitalized media processing to catch on.

Standards for Web Services

2008 ◽  
pp. 47-86
Author(s):  
Bill Karakostas ◽  
Yannis Zorgios
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Software Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

Chapter II presented the main concepts underlying business services. Ultimately, as this book proposes, business services need to be decomposed into networks of executable Web services. Web services are the primary software technology available today that closely matches the characteristics of business services. To understand the mapping from business to Web services, we need to understand the fundamental characteristics of the latter. This chapter therefore will introduce the main Web services concepts and standards. It does not intend to be a comprehensive description of all standards applicable to Web services, as many of them are still in a state of flux. It focuses instead on the more important and stable standards. All such standards are fully and precisely defined and maintained by the organizations that have defined and endorsed them, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (http://w3c. org), the OASIS organization (http://www.oasis-open.org) and others. We advise readers to visit periodically the Web sites describing the various standards to obtain the up to date versions.

Using Semantic Web Concepts to Retrieve Specific Domain Information from the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
Rafael Cunha Cardoso ◽  
Fernando da Fonseca de Souza ◽  
Ana Carolina Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
Domain Information ◽  
The Web

Currently, systems dedicated to information retrieval/extraction perform an important role on fetching relevant and qualified information from the World Wide Web (WWW). The Semantic Web can be described as the Web’s future once it introduces a set of new concepts and tools. For instance, ontology is used to insert knowledge into contents of the current WWW to give meaning to such contents. This allows software agents to better understand the Web’s content meaning so that such agents can execute more complex and useful tasks to users. This work introduces an architecture that uses some Semantic Web concepts allied to Regular Expressions (REGEX) in order to develop a system that retrieves/extracts specific domain information from the Web. A prototype, based on such architecture, was developed to find information about offers announced on supermarkets Web sites.

Webliography

2011 ◽  
pp. 957-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison Yang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
State University ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
The World

Traditionally, a bibliography is regarded as a list of printed resources (books, articles, reports, etc.) on a given subject or topic for further study or reference purpose (Alred, Brusaw, & Oliu, 2006; Lamb, 2006). According to the Micropaedia (1990), the bibliography refers to “study and description of books.” It is either the listing of books according to some system (enumerative or descriptive bibliography) or the study of books as tangible objects (analytical or critical bibliography). The term webliography is commonly used when discussing online resources. Although there is no clear agreement among educators regarding the origin of this term, many tend to believe that the term webliography was coined by the libraries at Louisiana State University to describe their list of favorite Web sites. It is referred to as “Web bibliography.” Accordingly, a webliography is a list of resources that can be accessed on the World Wide Web, relating to a particular topic or can be referred to in a scholarly work. A variety of studies suggest that understanding and developing webliographies, which relate to locate, evaluate, organize, and use effectively the needed online resources, are essential for information literacy and technology integration.

City Brands and their Communication through Web Sites

2010 ◽  
pp. 26-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Fernández-Cavia ◽  
Assumpció Huertas-Roig
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

City marketing tries to position cities in the mind of the public, although the process of creating and communicating city brands is still at an early stage of its development. One of the main tools for the communication of these brands is now the World Wide Web. This chapter describes the results of two combined studies (qualitative and quantitative) that analyzes a sample of official city Web sites. The results show that official Web sites of cities give much attention to ease of navigation, but interactivity is much less implemented, especially between users. Furthermore, some lack of attention to the communication aspects of city brands can also be found. Finally, the chapter submits a number of improvement proposals.

World Wide Web Site Design and Use in U S Local Government Public Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 337-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmine Scavo ◽  
Jody Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
County Government ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Government Web Sites ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web has been widely adopted by local governments as a way to interact with local residents. The promise and reality of Web applications are explored in this chapter. Four types of Web utilizations are analyzed: bulletin board applications, promotion applications, service delivery applications, and citizen input applications. A survey of 145 municipal and county government Web sites originally conducted in 1998 was replicated in 2002, and then again in 2006. These data are used to examine how local governments are actually using the Web and to examine the evolution of Web usage over the 8-year span between the first and third survey. The chapter concludes that local governments have made progress in incorporating many of the features of the Web but that they have a long way to go in realizing its full promise.

CMU-WEB

2002 ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Akhilesh Bajaj ◽  
Ramayya Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Design Metrics ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Classification ◽  
The World

With the ubiquitous availability of browsers and internet access, the last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of applications being developed on the world wide web (WWW). Models for analyzing and designing these applications are only just beginning to emerge. In this work, we propose a 3-dimensional classification space for WWW applications, consisting of a degree of structure of pages dimension, a degree of support for interrelated events dimension and a location of processing dimension. Next, we propose usability design metrics for WWW applications along the structure of pages dimension. To measure these ,we propose CMU-WEB: a conceptual model that can be used to design WWW applications, such that its schemas provide values for the design metrics. This work represents the first effort, to the best of our knowledge, to provide a conceptual model that measures quantifiable metrics that can be used for the design of more usable web applications, and that can also be used to compare the usability of existing web applications, without empirical testing.

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