Content adaptation
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Content adaptation is the action of transforming
Content adaptation could roughly be divided to two fields:
- Media content adaptation that adapts media files.
- Browsing content adaptation that adapts a website to mobile devices.
Browsing content adaptation
Advances in the capabilities of small, mobile devices such as
The sheer number and variety of Web-enabled devices poses significant challenges for authors of websites who want to support access from mobile devices. The W3C Device Independence Working Group described many of the issues in its report Authoring Challenges for Device Independence.
Content adaptation is one approach to a solution. Rather than requiring authors to create pages explicitly for each type of device that might request them, content adaptation transforms an author's materials automatically.
For example, content might be converted from a device-independent markup language, such as
Once created, the device-specific materials form the response returned to the device from which the request was made.
Another way is to use the latest trend responsive design based on CSS, covered in this article (RWD).
Content adaptation requires a processor that performs the selection, modification, and generation of materials to form the device-specific result. IBM's Websphere Everyplace Mobile Portal (WEMP), BEA Systems' WebLogic Mobility Server, Morfeo's MyMobileWeb, and Apache Cocoon are examples of such processors.
GreasySpoon lets the developer build plugins for content editing, in
Alembik (Media Transcoding Server) is a Java (
In 2007, the first large scale carrier-grade deployments of content transformation, on existing mass-market handsets, with no software download required, were deployed by
InfoGin, the 9-year-old content-adaptation company with customers like Vodafone, Orange, Telefónica and PCCW. The patented "Web to Mobile adaptation", Mobile Matrix Transcoder, Multimedia and Documents transcoders, Video adaptation supporte.
Launched in 2007, Bytemobile's Web Fidelity Service was another carrier-grade, commercial infrastructure solution, which provided wireless content adaptation to mobile subscribers on their existing mass-market handsets, with no client download required.[citation needed]
See also
- Progressive enhancement, layering technologies such that more features are added for successively more powerful clients.
- Adaptation (computer science)
- jQuery Mobile or Zepto
- Responsive architecture is an analogous concept, applied to actual building architecture.
References
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- ^ Lattimore, Phil (26 July 2007), “Yahoo to Bring Full Web to All Mobiles” http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/yahoo-to-bring-full-web-to-all-mobiles-155967 techradar.com (retrieved 8 October 2009)
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