The thesis treats automatic extraction of semantic data from Web pages. Within this broad problem, it focuses on finding values of data figures within the page presenting certain entity (e.g. price of a laptop). The main idea we wanted to evaluate is that a figure can be found using its context in the page: the words that surround it and values of the attributes of the containing HTML tags, class attribute in particular. Our research revealed there are two types of contemporary solutions of this problem: either the author of the Web page must inline semantic information inside the markup of the page or there are commercial tools that can be trained to parse a particular page format (targetting pages from a single Web domain). We examined the possibilities of developing a general solution that would - for given entity - find its properties across the Web domains using text analysis and machine learning. The naïve algorithm had about 30% accuracy, the lear- ning algorithms had the accuracy between 40 and 50% in finding the properties. Despite the accuracy is not acceptable for a final solution, we believe it confirms the potential of the idea. Keywords: Web pages data extraction 1

Creation of web wrappers (i.e programs that extract data from the web) is a subject of study in the field of web data extraction. Designing a domain-specific language for a web wrapper is a challenging task, because it introduces trade-offs between expressiveness of a wrapper's language and safety. In addition, little attention has been paid to execution of a wrapper in restricted environment. In this thesis, we present a new wrapping language -- Serrano -- that has three goals in mind. (1) Ability to run in restricted environment, such as a browser extension, (2) extensibility, to balance the tradeoffs between expressiveness of a command set and safety, and (3) processing capabilities, to eliminate the need for additional programs to clean the extracted data. Serrano has been successfully deployed in a number of projects and provided encouraging results. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This thesis describes the process of creation of a game for web browsers using Babylon.js framework. It also touches on subjects of 3D graphics on the web, 3D animation and structure of web applications. Game itself is created using Typescript language and it is shared using a Node.js module as its web server. It is a fighting game for two players, where their characters fight using martial arts.

The subject of the thesis is designing and implementing web application, which visualizes the impacts of alternative land use in a model village and its surroundings, pointing out possible advantages, disadvantages and risks of different land uses. The user is able to place buildings on the map and choose between different approaches to agriculture, forestry, water managment etc. The application visualizes the impact of users decisions in response.

The thesis deals with the creation of a three-dimensional virtual view with the use of the new WebGL standard in combination with O3D javascript framework. The result is freely available web application which generates a virtual tour of sent series of photographs. Afterwards, the photographs are processed by the server, which on the basis of found corresponding points creates 3D scene. The application is based on a freeware application Bundler [40] which is used for identifying 3D points in uploaded photographs and related cameras (the places from which the photographs were taken). Bundler outputs are processed by Jetty web server with the use of Java script. At this point, all data required for the creation of a view are gathered. The display of the final result is then realized via HTML5, CSS, WebGL and Javascript using O3D.

This thesis discusses rendering capabilities of web browsers of accelerated 3D scene rendering. It specifically deals with direct volumetric medical data visualization. It focuses on the usage of ray casting algorithm, its quality and its realistic rendering options. One of the goals was to create an application that demonstrates the ability to render three-dimensional volume data in a web browser using WebGL. The application is written in JavaSript and its 3D rendering core uses the Three.js library.

Das World Wide Web befindet sich im Wandel von interaktiven Webseiten hin zu Web- Applikationen. Eine steigende Zahl von Anwendern führt täglich Aufgaben ausschließlich mit Hilfe des Web-Browsers durch. Dadurch wird das Web zu einer bedeutenden Plattform für Anwendungsentwicklung. Dieser Plattform fehlt jedoch heute noch die Rechenleistung nativer Applikationen. Microsoft Xax und Google Native Client (NaCl) sind zwei neue, unabhängige Technologien zur Entwicklung nativer Web-Applikationen. Sie ermöglichen die Erweiterung herkömmlicher Web-Applikationen durch kompilierten nativen und dennoch betriebssystemunabhängigen Programmcode. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Vor- und Nachteile nativer Web-Applikationen und analysiert zudem das tatsächliche Leistungsvermögen im Vergleich zu konventionellen JavaScript Web-Applikationen. Dazu wird eine experimentelle Leistungsanalyse von nativen Applikationen in C, JavaScript Web-Applikationen und NaCl nativen Web-Applikationen anhand vier unterschiedlicher Vergleichstests durchgeführt. Dabei werden die folgenden Leistungsaspekte betrachtet: mathematische Operationen (seriell und parallel), 3D-Grafikoperationen und Datenverarbeitung. Die Ergebnisse der Leistungsanalyse zeigen, dass NaCl Stärken in mathematischen und 3D-Grafikoperationen zu Grunde liegen, jedoch erhebliche Schwächen bei der Datenverarbeitung aufweist. Entsprechende Lösungsansätze zur Optimierung der Anwendung werden erarbeitet und erörtert. Eine Bewertung anhand technischer und nicht-technischer Kriterien komplementiert die Ergebnisse der Leistungsanalyse. Darüber hinaus werden die technischen, politischen und strategischen Treiber für NaCls Marktdurchdringung diskutiert. / The World Wide Web is amidst a transition from interactive websites to web applications. An increasing number of users perform their daily computing tasks entirely within the web browser, turning the Web into an important platform for application development. The Web as a platform, however, lacks the computational performance of native applications. This problem has motivated the inception of Microsoft Xax and Google Native Client (NaCl), two independent projects that facilitate the development of native web applications. These allow the extension of conventional web applications with compiled native code, while maintaining operating system portability. This dissertation determines the benefits and drawbacks of native web applications. It also examines the actual performance capabilities of JavaScript web applications. An experimental performance analysis is undertaken in order to determine and compare the performance characteristics of native C applications, JavaScript web applications, and NaCl native web applications. Four application benchmarks consider different performance aspects: number crunching (serial and parallel), 3D graphics performance, and data processing. The results confirm that NaCl''s performance in computational tasks and 3D graphics is impeccable. On the other hand, it shows substantial limitations in data processing. These are evaluated and possible solutions are discussed. The results of the performance analysis are complemented with an evaluation on the basis of technical and non-technical criteria and a discussion of the technical, political, and strategic drivers for NaCl.

Single Sign-On (SSO) är en autentiseringsprocess som tillåter en utvecklare att delegera autentiseringsansvaret till en dedikerad tjänst. OAuth 2.0 är ett auktoriseringsramverk som ofta står som grund för ett autentiseringslager som i sin tur möjliggör SSO. En identitetsleverantör är tjänsten som står för hantering av användaruppgifterna och autentiseringen, två vanliga identitetsleverantörer är Google och Facebook som i sin tur implementerar SSO med hjälp utav autentiseringslagren OpenID Connect respektive Facebooks egna autentiseringslager. Det har visat sig att många klienter som ska utnyttja SSO med OAuth 2.0 implementerar det fel så att säkerhetsbrister uppstår, studier har utförts med förslag till lösningar men många bristande implementationer fortsätter produceras och existera. Att skapa diverse verktyg för att främja säkerhet i dessa sammanhang är en metod där OAuthGuard utvecklats med visionen att även kunna skydda användaren, direkt från en webbläsare. OAuthGuard har även tidigare använts för att analysera säkerheten med Google SSO och visat att 50% av undersökta klienter har brister, men motsvarande studie eller verktyg saknas för Facebook SSO. Denna studie gjorde en motsvarande undersökning för Facebook SSO-klienter med en vidareutvecklad version av OAuthGuard och fann att de lider av brister med liknande trend som tidigare studies resultat mot Google-SSO-klienter, men att färre Facebook- SSO-klienter har brister i jämförelse. Vid vidareutvecklingen av OAuthGuard upptäcktes ett antal svårigheter och framtiden för denna typ av verktyg behöver vidare analyseras. Vidare analys behöver även göras för att bedöma om Facebook-SSO kan vara att föredra över Google-SSO ur säkerhetsperspektiv samt vidare utforskande av nya säkerhetsfrämjande metoder behöver utföras. / Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication process that allows a developer to delegate the authentication responsibility to a dedicated service. OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that often serves as a base for authentication layers to be built upon that in turn allows for SSO. An identity provider is the service that is responsible for handling user credentials and the authentication, two common identity providers are Google and Facebook that implement SSO with the authentication layers OpenID Connect respectively Facebooks own authentication layer. It has been shown that many clients using OAuth 2.0 as base for SSO make faulty implementations leading to security issues, a number of studies has proposed solutions to these issues but faulty implementations are continually being made. To create various tools to promote security in these contexts is a method where OAuthGuard has been developed with the vision to also directly protect the common website user directly from the browser. OAuthGuard has been used in an earlier study to analyze the security of clients using Google SSO and discovered that 50% of the analyzed clients had flaws, no comparable study has been done for clients using Facebook SSO, which is the second largest third party log in variant. This study made a comparable investigation for Facebook SSO clients with a further developed version of OAuthGuard and found that these clients suffer from flaws with a similar trend as the previous study with Google-SSO clients, although fewer Facebook-SSO clients suffer from these flaws. When further developing OAuthGuard a dumber of difficulties was discovered and the future of these kind of tools needs to be investigated. Further analysis needs to be done to assess if Facebook-SSO should be recommended over Google-SSO from a security perspective and also further exploration of new methods to promote security needs to be done.

Many companies invest large amount of money in developing new technology, without knowing how it will be used. To succeed in making these technologies useful it is necessary to understand the context that gives meaning to the artifact. In the case of generic products, especially in new domains, the context is not obvious. This bachelor thesis analyses what Usability Engineering, Participatory Design and Ethnography can contribute to the problem of learning about the context of usage for generic artifacts. Understanding and identifying details of context is considered to be important to achieve usability in software development. The experience is that most recommendations on usability methods concern situations of specific users in a specific context. In order to find important aspects of the real-world use of generic products, we suggest that ethnographic studies can be conducted in contexts where behaviors relevant to the design are thought to be found. The problem of not knowing the context was experienced in usability work practiced in a large software engineering project. The project task was to develop a web browser for Symbian's ?Quartz? reference design for handheld devices. Methods used were taken from participatory design and usability engineering.

This thesis discusses possibilities of accelerated 3D scene displaying in a Web browser. In more detail, it deals with WebGL standard and its use in real applications. An application for visualization of volumetric medical data based on JavaScript, WebGL and Three.js library was designed and implemented. Image data are loaded from Google Drive cloud storage. An important part of the application is 3D visualization of the volumetric data based on volume rendering technique called Ray-casting.