Authors:
António Pacheco
1
;
Carlos Serrão
2
;
Carlos Costa
2
and
Ferreira Dias
2
Affiliations:
1
Direcção de Análise e Gestão de Informação, Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa, Portugal
;
2
DCTI, ISCTE, Adetti –Ed. ISCTE, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Web browsing, PDA, small screen device, single-column view, thumbnail view.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
e-Retailing and Web Design
;
Global Communication Information Systems and Services
;
M-Commerce
;
Mobile Public Services
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Information Access
;
Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services
;
Web Technologies and Web Services
Abstract:
During the past few years the web has changed and something which has been developed primarily for desktop computers can now be accessed from everywhere using portable and mobile devices. However, these new devices have some serious limitations in terms of screen size and computational power, just to mention a few. In order to display web pages designed for desktop-sizes monitors, some small screen web browsers provide different approaches for this problem – however, these approaches have limitations. In this paper, we have performed tests to five different small screen rendering web-browsers (Pocket Internet Explorer, Minimo, NetFront, Opera, Opera Mini) while rendering some relevant web sites.