CloudWeb: A Cloud Based Webpage Transforming for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices have already been widely used to access the Web. However, because most available web pages are designed for desktop PC, it is inconvenient to browse these large web pages on a mobile device with a small screen. In this paper, we propose a new web page transforming scheme to facilitate navigation on a small-form-factor device based on cloud computing. Different with other existing schemes, our approach is based on page segmentation and template-rendering. The semantic structure of a web page is extracted by DOM (Document Object Model) analyzing. Such semantic structure is hierarchical. Each node is corresponded to a block area of one web page and is in charge of reconstructing the whole web page. According to different content styles, the template-rendering scheme generates different display modes. Experimental results show good experience.