SMALL SCREEN RENDERING WEB-BROWSER COMPARISON - When Web Content is Too Large to Fit the Screen

António Pacheco, Carlos Serrão, Carlos Costa, Ferreira Dias

2006

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.

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in Harvard Style

Pacheco A., Serrão C., Costa C. and Dias F. (2006). SMALL SCREEN RENDERING WEB-BROWSER COMPARISON - When Web Content is Too Large to Fit the Screen . In Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-62-7, pages 145-150. DOI: 10.5220/0001427401450150


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-b06,
author={António Pacheco and Carlos Serrão and Carlos Costa and Ferreira Dias},
title={SMALL SCREEN RENDERING WEB-BROWSER COMPARISON - When Web Content is Too Large to Fit the Screen},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={145-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001427401450150},
isbn={978-972-8865-62-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006)
TI - SMALL SCREEN RENDERING WEB-BROWSER COMPARISON - When Web Content is Too Large to Fit the Screen
SN - 978-972-8865-62-7
AU - Pacheco A.
AU - Serrão C.
AU - Costa C.
AU - Dias F.
PY - 2006
SP - 145
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0001427401450150