Improvement of power and time by gesture based Text Selection in mobile Web Browser

This paper focuses on the problem of Text Selection in a Web Page on Web Browser on a mobile device. Current methods of text selection involve selecting a base selection, and then extending the selection to move the end point of selection. We use a marker based selection method, which is better in terms of time taken and power consumed. The readings for power and time consumption were measured using the Monsoon Power Tool for the Mobile Browser application. The readings show that there is a significant improvement in the power and time consumption with the new method of gesture based selection. The solution is integrated with mobile web browser architecture. This solution can be extended to other mobile applications also, which uses text selection.