A simplistic, early approach to adaptation based on the modification of the component layout, translating the markup language and rearranging and resizing the elements making up the Web interface of the target application. It can also be defined as the process of changing the format, representation or encoding of a document, while keeping as much information as possible from the original source.
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New Trends in Semantic-Based Location and Context-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Web Applications Development
Miguel Jiménez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Javier Soriano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), José Manuel Cantera (Telefonica Research & Development, Spain), Ignacio Marín (Fundación CTIC de Asturias, Spain), and Diego Berrueta (Fundación CTIC de Asturias, Spain)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-655-1.ch036
Abstract
This chapter depicts, from a comprehensive perspective, the state of the art of the mobile Web application development, ranging from the traditional transcoding techniques used to enable mobile browsing from early Web-enabled devices to innovative and ambitious proposals based on detecting an extensively described context and adapting to it. The chapter discusses the main solutions being adopted for adapting mobile Web applications and contexts to multiple devices and contexts, and outlines the newest trends on full-fledged context-aware adaptation that give a step forward on device-based adaptation and pursue the creation of applications that satisfy the emerging user needs about context- and location-based information and services. As a case of success, the MyMobileWeb project is studied in depth.