Constraints for the web

Alan Borning; Richard Lin; Kim Marriott

doi:10.1145/266180.266361

Constraints for the web

Alan Borning, Richard Lin, Kim Marriott

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

Constraints can be used to specify the desired layout of a web document, and also the behavior of embedded applets. We present a system architecture in which both the author and the viewer can impose page layout constraints, some required and some preferential. The final appearance of the web page is thus the result of negotiation between author and viewer, where this negotiation is carried out by solving the set of required and preferential constraints imposed by both parties. We identify two plausible system architectures, based on different ways of dividing the work of constraint solving between web server and web client. Finally, we describe an implementation of a prototype constraint based web authoring system and viewer, which also provides constraint-based embedded applets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MULTIMEDIA 1997
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	173-182
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	0897919912, 9780897919913
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/266180.266361
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 1997
Event	ACM International Conference on Multimedia 1997 - Seattle, United States of America Duration: 9 Nov 1997 → 13 Nov 1997 Conference number: 5th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/266180

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Conference	ACM International Conference on Multimedia 1997
Abbreviated title	MULTIMEDIA 1997
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Seattle
Period	9/11/97 → 13/11/97
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/266180

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