WEB USER INTERACTION - Comparison of Declarative Approaches

Mikko Pohja, Mikko Honkala, Miemo Penttinen, Petri Vuorimaa, Panu Ervamaa

2006

Abstract

The World Wide Web is evolving from a platform for information access into a platform for interactive services. Several applications are already used through Internet and Web browsers. User interface of such an application is defined by HTML. However, HTML has its deficiencies when used as a general UI description language. Several parties have addressed this problem by defining specific UI description languages. Thus, for instance, a web browser could be used as a user interface for any application. We have revised the requirements for a UI description language from literature and evaluated two XML-based UI description formats against the requirements through use cases.

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in Harvard Style

Pohja M., Honkala M., Penttinen M., Vuorimaa P. and Ervamaa P. (2006). WEB USER INTERACTION - Comparison of Declarative Approaches . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-46-7, pages 295-302. DOI: 10.5220/0001238802950302


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist06,
author={Mikko Pohja and Mikko Honkala and Miemo Penttinen and Petri Vuorimaa and Panu Ervamaa},
title={WEB USER INTERACTION - Comparison of Declarative Approaches},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={295-302},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001238802950302},
isbn={978-972-8865-46-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WEB USER INTERACTION - Comparison of Declarative Approaches
SN - 978-972-8865-46-7
AU - Pohja M.
AU - Honkala M.
AU - Penttinen M.
AU - Vuorimaa P.
AU - Ervamaa P.
PY - 2006
SP - 295
EP - 302
DO - 10.5220/0001238802950302