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HANd : A New Transcoding Technique for PDA Browsers

The HANd (Hierarchical Atomic Navigation) technique revolutionizes web navigation on PDAs by transcoding original HTML content into a structured, readable format. It retains all original information, transforming unreadable elements into icons and displaying them on a simplified navigator page. By fragmenting web pages into zones, where only one zone is shown at the original scale, users can easily access readable atomic pages. This innovative approach ensures no information is lost while optimizing the browsing experience for small screens.

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HANd : A New Transcoding Technique for PDA Browsers

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  1. HANd:A New Transcoding Technique for PDA Browsers Enrique Costa Montenegro Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática ETSI Telecomunicación Universidad de Vigo, Spain kike@det.uvigo.es

  2. Introduction • HANd: Hierarchical Atomic Navigation • New transcoding technique for WWW navigation on PDA • Keeps all original information • One navigator page and several atomic pages • Replaces unreadable elements by icons

  3. HANd philosophy • Fragmentation of original page into zones • Zones are sets of elements (pictures, links, text, tables...) • Only one zone is displayed at original scale • Navigator page: a reduced overview of the original page, with links to atomic pages • Atomic pages: readable elements or zones, pieces of the original page

  4. HANd philosophy (II) • Representations of elements • Reduced version: if readable • Representative icon: if reduced element or zone is unreadable • Dependence between elements: an element is unreadable if all its descendants are unreadable • Navigation page: representatives in the same relative locations of original elements

  5. HANd example

  6. HANd example (II)

  7. HANd example (III)

  8. HANd example (IV)

  9. HANd example (V)

  10. HANd page generator • Two stages • Preprocessing stage • Conversion stage

  11. HANd Page Generator (II) • Preprocessing stage • Input: HTML documents • Conversion of HTML to XHTML using Jtidy • Obtain DOM tree from XHTML using a DOM parser • DOM tree: representation of XHTML document as a tree of nodes, each node is an element of the XHTML document

  12. HANd Page Generator (III) • Conversion stage • Input: DOM Tree • Apply visibility and transformation rules to DOM Tree • Obtain new DOM trees • Convert new DOM trees to navigation page and associated atomic pages

  13. Transformation rules: readability • A PDA-to-PC screen area ratio is calculated, R<1, used to reduce elements • Text: new font area is calculated, move to atomic page if not readable • Images: new size is calculated, if original picture is small enough, it wont be resized • Readability threshold, label unreadable elements with 1, 0 otherwise

  14. Transformation rules: pruning • Labels are propagated across the DOM tree • Branches without 0 labels are pruned

  15. Transformation rules: results • Nodes with label 0 (readable) are substituted with reduced representatives • Nodes with label 1 (unreadable) are replaced by an icon, with a link to the atomic page with the original information • Adjacency rule: all adjacent icons associated to elements of the same type are represented by a single icon

  16. Transformation rules: example

  17. Conclusions • HANd: New Transcoding Technique for PDA • Advantages • No information loss: all elements in atomic pages • Navigator page: readable overview of the original page • Valid for all WWW documents and navigators

  18. Questions!! Example: What is the ´d´ in HANd?

  19. The End

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