Title
MobiTran: tool support for refactoring PC websites to smart phones
Abstract
This paper presents MobiTran, an online developer tool for refactoring regular PC websites to adapt smart phones. MobiTran only requires the URL address of original websites as inputs, and takes three steps to semi-automatically generate a smart phone specific version. A novel algorithm is devised to split original webpage into a set of pieces according to screen size estate, while preserving most CSS and JavaScript behaviors. Then, developers are assisted to manually adjust the semi-finished web applications, like layout and styling templates, on-demand page fetching, navigation, touch behaviors, integration with local features and apps, and so on. Finally, developers can pack the generated application versions and deploy onto their web server, or make them to native apps. We believe our versatile approach can help website providers to fast migrate their applications to mobile environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2541614.2541621
Middleware Demo & Poster Track
Field
DocType
Volume
World Wide Web,Web page,Display size,Computer science,Web application,Smart phone,Code refactoring,JavaScript,Web server
Conference
null
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
null
1
0.36
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Ma121620.25
Yimeng Fang210.36
Xiaomin Zhu3921100.31
Xuanzhe Liu468957.53
Gang Huang51223110.80