2010 Seventh International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, author, issuing body.

Contributor:

IEEE Staff, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Congresses.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 514 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] I E E E 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Authoring CSS is a complex, time consuming task requiring not only skilled human graphic designers but also skilled human coders. Practice shows that today human authored code is still superior to machine generated CSS, but the code characteristics which make the difference have not been researched or even quantified yet. In this paper we introduce the abstractness factor, a quality metric which reveals the advantages of human authored code and can serve as an optimization criterion and benchmark for automated CSS coding. We argue that a high abstractness factor represents a high maintainability and reusability of the presentation document as well as the content document. By an evaluation of 100,000 HTML pages randomly gathered from the Web we show that today's typical style sheet document has a significantly higher abstractness factor compared to code fully machine generated by state-of-the-art applications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780769542416

0769542417