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Differentiated Information Presentations for Heterogeneous I/O Devices using a Single Mark-up Language Approach
1 Laboratory of Multimedia Networking (LMN), Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC Email: huangcm@locust.iie.ncku.edu.tw
The demand for a faster, more efficient and more convenient way for accessing the WWW is urgently required with the growing use of the Internet. Thus, even for many non-computer devices, such as telephones, fax machines and hand-held devices, there have been added some new networking features and corresponding new applications created. Different I/O devices have different characteristics and browsing behaviors. To provide a versatile service to different I/O devices with different quality of information, we propose a mark-up language called the Quality of Information Mark-up Language (QIML( and corresponding browsing systems in this paper. With QIML, a page designer can describe a different quality of information for presentations to different I/O devices using a single Web page set. The language structure, system architecture and system development are presented in the paper.