Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from PDF file main screen (viewed on July 27, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Humanities Computing, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 89-91).

This diploma thesis describes new HTML5 standard. The aim is to show the potential uses and benefits of HTML5 compared to HTML4. Another objective is to analyze the support of HTML5 in most advanced web browsers on desktops and mobile devices. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is divided into 5 chapters. The first chapter describes the introduction to the main concepts and definitions. The second chapter describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 elements. The third chapter describes HTML5 API. The fourth chapter analyzes the support of HTML5 featu- res in web browsers. Last chapter of the theoretical part discusses tools based on best practices which are useful for developing HTML5 applications. In the practical part, there are implemented real examples of HTML5 features. Practical examples are described as a tutorial. The contribution of this work is a demonstration of the advantages of HTML5 over the old standard. Contribution is also analysis of support of HTML5 features in web browsers. The diploma thesis is intended primarily for web developers and can be used as a reference guide. HTML5 is the standard of the future, and web developers can contribute to the overall improvement of the web by using it.

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Mobile web browsers of today have many of the same capabilities as their desktop counterparts. However, among the capabilities they lack is a way for web applications to interact with local devices. While today’s mobile phones commonly include GPS receivers and digital cameras, these local devices are currently not accessible from within the browser. The only means of utilizing these devices is by using standalone applications, but such applications lack the versatility of web browsers. If a mobile browser could utilize these local devices, then a mobile application could run within the browser, thus avoiding the need for specialized client software. This thesis suggests an approach for adding such capabilities to mobile browsers. In the proposed method, scripted access to local device functionality is facilitated by a local Java application. This application acts as a proxy server and allows the browser to call methods exposed by the local Java APIs. Both the benefits and some security concerns of this approach are examined. The benefits are further highlighted through two example web applications which utilize local devices. / I dagens mobila webbläsare återfinns det mesta av funktionaliteten från webbläsare för datorer. Det som dock fortfarande saknas är möjligheten för webbapplikationer att komma åt lokala telefonfunktioner. Dagens mobiltelefoner är ofta utrustade med GPS-mottagare och digitalkameror, men dessa kan för närvarande ej nås från webbläsaren. Det enda sättet att utnyttja dessa inbyggda funktioner är genom separata applikationer, men sådana applikationer är inte lika mångsidiga som webbläsare. Om en mobil webbläsare kunde utnyttja de inbyggda funktionerna, så skulle en mobil applikation kunna köras i webbläsaren istället för att ha separat klientprogramvara. Det här examensarbetet föreslår ett sätt att ge denna möjlighet till mobila webbläsare. I den föreslagna metoden används en lokal Java-applikation för att ge tillgång till inbyggda funktioner via skript. Denna applikation fungerar som en proxy-server och låter webbläsaren anropa metoder exponerade av lokala Java-API. Både fördelar och några säkerhetsproblem med den här lösningen undersöks. Fördelarna visas ytterligare genom två exempel på webbapplikationer som utnyttjar inbyggda telefonfunktioner.

Ho Ho-ching. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-107). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgment --- p.vi / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- Introduction to PBX based Call Center --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- The Scenarios --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3. --- Thesis Overview --- p.5 / Chapter 2. --- Features of Collaborative Browsing --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1. --- Feature Synchronization vs Bitmap Screen Transfer --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2. --- Basic Collaborative Features of the Collaborative Browser --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- Web Page Pushing --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- Screen Widget Synchronization --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- Tele-pointing and Shared Whiteboard --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3. --- Collaborative Form Manipulation --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Importance of Electronic Form Collaboration --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Basic Support for Form Collaboration ´ؤ´ؤData Synchronization --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.3. --- Existence of Form Complexity ´ؤForm Data Dependency --- p.75 / Chapter 2.3.4. --- Hinting --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4. --- Collaborative IVR --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- Traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Service --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.2. --- Abstraction ´ؤCorrelating Form Interaction Mechansim with IVR --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Collaborative IVR by Form Interaction Mechanism --- p.27 / Chapter 3. --- Software Architecture --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1. --- The Three-Tier Architecture --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2. --- The Collaboration Mechanism for Collaborative Browser --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Session Initialization/Termination --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- Data Flow of the Basic Collaboration Features --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.3. --- Control Mechanism --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2.4. --- The Hinting Mechanism for Collaborative Form Manipulation --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3. --- The Collaboration Mechanism for Collaborative IVR --- p.45 / Chapter 4. --- Implementation --- p.51 / Chapter 4.1. --- Shareable Document Object Architecture for Collaboration --- p.51 / Chapter 4.1.1. --- Document Object Architecture --- p.51 / Chapter 4.1.2. --- Generalizing to Shareable Document Object Architecture --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2. --- Whiteboard Mechanism --- p.55 / Chapter 4.3. --- Packet Data Unit for Communication --- p.57 / Chapter 4.4. --- Bridging Different Software Components --- p.60 / Chapter 4.5. --- Hinting Mechanism for Collaborative Form Manipulation --- p.63 / Chapter 4.5.1. --- Relating Form Fields to Table Fields --- p.63 / Chapter 4.5.2. --- Hinting by the Hinting Tables --- p.69 / Chapter 4.6. --- Collaborative IVR --- p.73 / Chapter 4.6.1. --- Using Mediator for Collaborative IVR --- p.73 / Chapter 4.6.2. --- Concept of Telephone Form --- p.74 / Chapter 4.6.3. --- Hinting for Collaborative IVR --- p.78 / Chapter 4.7. --- System Integration --- p.81 / Chapter 5. --- Performance Evaluation and Experiment Results --- p.84 / Chapter 5.1. --- Optimizing the Transmission Methodology --- p.84 / Chapter 5.2. --- Browser Responsiveness Study --- p.86 / Chapter 5.2.1. --- Experiment Details --- p.86 / Chapter 5.2.2. --- The Assumptions --- p.89 / Chapter 5.2.3. --- Experiment Results and Analysis --- p.90 / Chapter 5.3. --- Bandwidth Consumption --- p.94 / Chapter 6. --- Conclusions --- p.97 / Appendix A 一 Government Profit Tax Return Form --- p.101 / Appendix B ´ؤ A Phone Banking IVR Service Tree --- p.103 / Bibliography --- p.104

Our society increasingly relies on the Internet for common services like online banking, shopping, and socializing. Many of these services heavily depend on secure end-to-end transactions to transfer personal, financial, or other sensitive information. At the core of ensuring secure transactions are the TLS/SSL protocol and the ``trust'' relationships between all involved partners. In this thesis we passively monitor the HTTPS traffic between a campus network and the Internet, and characterize the certificate usage and trust relationships in this complex landscape. By comparing our observations against known vulnerabilities and problems, we provide an overview of the actual security that typical Internet users (such as the people on campus) experience. Our measurements cover both mobile and stationary users, consider the involved trust relationships, and provide insights into how the HTTPS protocol is used and the weaknesses observed in practice.

Five years have passed since Helen R. Tibbo and Lokman I. Meho conducted their study exploring how well six Web search engines retrieved electronic finding aids based on phrase and word searches of terms taken directly from the finding aids. This study similarly seeks to discover how well current search engines Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, AOL Search, Excite, and Ask Jeeves retrieved finding aids chosen at random from 25 North American primary source repositories. In March 2005, approximately 27% of repositories listed at the “Repositories of Primary Resources” web site had at least four full finding aids online, a substantial increase from 8% in 2000. This study affirmed phrase searches yielding better retrieval results than word searches. Encouragingly, the retrieval rates for phrase and word searches within electronic finding aids were approximately 20% higher than Tibbo and Meho’s findings despite the existence of several billion more World Wide Web pages in 2005.

Web applications have become a large segment of the software development domain but their rapid rise in popularity has far exceeded the support in software engineering. There are many tools and techniques for web application development, but the developer must still learn and use many complex protocols and languages. Products still closely bind data operations, business logic, and the user interface, limiting integration and interoperability. This thesis introduces an innovative new presentation service to help web application developers create better applications faster, and help them build high quality web user interfaces. This service acts as a broker between web browsers and applications, adding value with programming-language independent object-oriented technology. The second innovation is a generic graphics applet (GGA) component for the web browser user interface. This light component provides interactive graphics support for the creation of business charts, maps, diagrams, and other graphical displays in web applications. The combination of a presentation service program (BUS) and the GGA is explored in a series of experiments to evaluate their ability to improve web applications. The experiments provide evidence that the BUS and GGA technology enhances web application designs.