Alt, Florian; Schmidt, Albrecht; Atterer, Richard; Holleis, Paul:
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Old Web : A Platform for Parasitic Applications
In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009 / Gross, Tom; Gulliksen, Jan; Kotzé, Paula; Oestreicher, Lars; Palanque, Philippe; Prates, Raquel Oliveira; Winckler, Marco (Eds.). - 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, 2009 - Berlin: Springer, 2009 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5726), pp. 405 - 418
2009book article/chapter in ProceedingsOpen Access
Computer ScienceEconomicsFaculty of Business Administration and Economics » Computer Science » Pervasive Computing
Title in English:
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Old Web : A Platform for Parasitic Applications
Author:
Alt, FlorianUDE
LSF ID
49732
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Schmidt, AlbrechtUDE
LSF ID
49166
ORCID
0000-0003-3890-1990ORCID iD
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connected with university
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Atterer, Richard;Holleis, Paul
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Open Access
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Language of text:
English

Abstract in English:

It is possible to create interactive, responsive web applications that allow user-generated contributions. However, the relevant technologies have to be explicitly deployed by the authors of the web pages. In this work we present the concept of parasitic and symbiotic web applications which can be deployed on arbitrary web pages by means of a proxy-based application platform. Such applications are capable of inserting, editing and deleting the content of web pages. We use an HTTP proxy in order to insert JavaScript code on each web page that is delivered from the web server to the browser. Additionally we use a database server hosting user-generated scripts as well as high-level APIs allowing for implementing customized web applications. Our approach is capable of cooperating with existing web pages by using shared standards (e.g. formatting of the structure on DOM level) and common APIs but also allows for user-generated (parasitic) applications on arbitrary web pages without the need for cooperation by the page owner.