Augmented browsing

Matjaž Horvat (2009) Augmented browsing. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

When surfing the web users more and more often want the personalized user experience. Diploma thesis addresses augmented browsing, which describes the experience of using a system that can automatically improve the information on web pages, without having administrator access rights. With technologies and software tools, which are described in the section Pregled tehnologij (Technology overview), visitors can adapt web pages to their personal preferences. Since the adjustments can be very diverse, a number of technologies is made available, each with its advantages and disadvantages. In addition to these technologies and software tools to augment web pages developer also needs to have basic knowledge of web programming languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Therefore we get to know some key traps in the section Pogosti problemi (Common problems), which developer should pay attention to, especially when using CSS and JavaScript. The main part of the thesis presents a systematic review of augmenting web pages with a web application called Zemanta. We augment various web pages using the Bookmarklet, Greasemonkey user script, Firefox extension and Jetpack, and we also integrate Zemanta using Ubiquity.

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