MPhil Thesis Defence


"Transforming Webpage to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse
Engineering"

By

Mr. Benfeng Chen


Abstract

Developing Web pages following World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards
can make the information more accessible, their rendering more efficient,
and their processing by computer applications easier. Unfortunately, more
than 95% of the existing Web pages today are not compliant with standards.
Fixing any Web page to make it standard-compliant manually is a major
undertaking. But, there is no effective tool to transform existing Web
pages to make them standard-compliant. We developed a tool called PURE
that automatically cleans up an HTML document through reverse engineering.
PURE starts with the rendering result of a given Web page and generates
valid HTML code and CSS code automatically to produce the same appearance.
It is found to be effective for many existing Web pages. A prototype is
now available for public testing and comments.


Date:				Friday, 20 January 2006

Time:				2:30p.m.-4:30p.m.

Venue:				Room 4505
				Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:		Prof. Vincent Shen (Supervisor)
				Dr. Lei Chen (Chairperson)
				Dr. Yunhao Liu


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