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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Smart caching for web browsers
In modern Web applications, style formatting and layout calculation often account for a substantial amount of local Web page processing time. In this paper1 , we present two novel...
Kaimin Zhang, Lu Wang, Aimin Pan, Bin Benjamin Zhu
ASSETS
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
A comparison of voice controlled and mouse controlled web browsing
Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Con...
Kevin Christian, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Adel...
SIGMETRICS
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
Smartphones vs. laptops: comparing web browsing behavior and the implications for caching
In this work we present the differences and similarities of the web browsing behavior in most common mobile platforms. We devise a novel Operating System (OS) fingerprinting met...
Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Erich M. Nahum, Vasileios ...
NSDI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Crom: Faster Web Browsing Using Speculative Execution
Early web content was expressed statically, making it amenable to straightforward prefetching to reduce userperceived network delay. In contrast, today's rich web application...
James Mickens, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, Jay Lorch
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Web browsing today: the impact of changing contexts on user activity
Although web browsing behaviour was studied in detail in the mid-to-late 1990s, few recent results have been reported. The nature of web browsing has changed significantly since t...
Kirstie Hawkey, Kori Inkpen