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What is Microbrowser

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
A Web browser designed for a small device.
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Critical Issues in Content Repurposing for Small Devices
Neil C. Rowe (U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch040
Abstract
Content repurposing is the reorganizing of data for presentation on different display hardware (Singh, 2004). It has been particularly important recently with the growth of handheld devices such as “personal digital assistants” (PDAs), sophisticated telephones, and other small specialized devices. Unfortunately, such devices pose serious problems for multimedia delivery. With their small screens (240 by 320 for a basic Palm PDA), one cannot display much information (like most of a Web page); with their low bandwidths, one cannot display video and audio transmissions from a server (“streaming”) with much quality; and with their small storage capabilities, large media files cannot be stored for later playback. Furthermore, new devices and old ones with new characteristics have been appearing at a high rate, so software vendors are having difficulty keeping pace. So some real-time, systematic, and automated planning could be helpful in figuring how to show desired data, especially multimedia, on a broad range of devices.
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