A Development Framework for Mobile User-Interfaces Based on HTML Centric Dependency Injection

Abstract

While the use of mobile Web contents has shown a considerable increase, most of these contents, which are written in HTML format, are not convenient enough to use. Even though rich user-interfaces can be developed using some technologies like Flash Lite, it costs high because developers need to construct a whole application from scratch. Therefore, the development framework for mobile Web contents which reduces the development cost is needed. In this paper, we propose a development framework for rich user-interfaces of mobile Web contents. The proposed framework employs the dependency injection pattern to separate a content and its user-interface. Each user-interface component provides a functionality of a specific user-interface, and information that is specific to a particular website is described in an HTML document. A Web site is made by binding multiple user-interface components with an HTML document. The proposed framework provides a reduction of the development cost of mobile Web sites with a rich user-interface by leveraging existing resources.