MIMEFrame-a framework for statically and dynamically composed adaptable mobile browsers

The mobile environment sets new requirements for contents, browsers, and visualization. The capabilities and properties of mobile devices as well as networks vary a lot. As well as the browsing content, also, mobile browsers should be adaptable for specific users, use-contexts, and services to provide reasonable user experience. Because mobile usage is more spontaneous browsers need to be fast to download, install, and start. We describe a MIMEFrame framework that defines core parts for mobile user agents and browsers and present how adaptation tasks can dynamically compose browsers of the MIMEFrame components. In addition, we introduce a SKINS model that offers fine-grained methods for composing context- and content-driven presentations for (e.g. XML) contents and user interfaces described with element trees. We made Java implementations for these techniques that offer both core interfaces and a platform for adaptable mobile user agent and browser implementations that can illustrate various types of content and offer multimodal controls for browsing