WebXCope™ is a beta level online service brought to you by Jenner Research. It is intended to show one unique way to open up broad internet content for small networked devices equipped with standard browsers without the need for expensive content redesign. The objective is to present essential part of generic web content for users while minimizing two dimensional scrolling overhead.

The technology (patent pending) developed at Jenner Research performs simplifying, splitting, and scaling operations against desktop oriented web content to fit in client devices. It preserves principal elements and presentation components from the original document, including text, hyperlinks, images, forms, two dimensional navigation order, as well as dynamically generated parts. The transcoded results are encoded in XML compliant HTML.

In addition, each oversized document is broken down and organized as a mini web site on the fly. WebXCope™ uses its proprietary virtual layout algorithm to size the underlying document and determine whether and how it should be scaled and/or partitioned to be client device friendly. Partitions are ordered and hyperlinked in a hierarchical manner according to the original document structure.

Current international character set support includes western alphabets , BIG5 (traditional Chinese) and GB (simplified Chinese). Additional i18 support (e.g. JIS and EUC-JP for Japanese) will be available in the future.

This service is available to PDA or cellphone users with standard HTML or XHTML browsers. It is not intended for regular desktop computers to access simplified web content.

• Go to Jenner Research web site, enter target URL to WebXCope™, and click Go to receive device friendly content.
• An oversized web content will be broken down into several partitiones linked hierarchically in an ordered manner with the following build-in hyperlinks:

  • [n] link: to the child partition marked with order n . All partitions from the original document are ordered and assigned a linear number.
  • [+] link: immediate next partition as ordered.
  • [-] link: immediate previous partition as ordered.
  • [^] link: parent partition where it is split from, to follow hierarchical relationships built into the partitions.
  • [<<] link: the previous page referer to the current set of partition pages.
  • (nK) link: original image as indicated in the bracket quoted text immediately preceding it. nK indicates approximately the image size, e.g. (6K) is a link to an image about 6K pixels in size.

• Content display can be further tuned through the [Preferences] link on top of each transcoded partition page. Click this link to bring up a setting page showing current set of transcoding parameters.
  For full setings::
  • Adjust Page size index to increase or decrease the number of partions.
  • Select Image option to minimize image shown or turn it on/off.
  • Determine to keep Table constructs from the original content or not. Table could be removed in three different manners. The most common one RUnroll is based on table row relationship to reflow the content.
  • Specify number of characters per display line through Character number calibration to ensure proper horizontal display optimization, especially when image option is turned on.
  • Adapt Display width index to minimize or eliminate horizontal scrolling.
  • Click on OK and Continue to transcode the same content with the new set of parameters. This new set of parameters will be updated in the device browser, if cookie capability is turned on.
    • Registered user who has logged in will be presented with the updated content display right away.
    • Users not yet logged in will be asked to log in. To continue wihout logging in, click on Proceed without login link.

  • Click on Save button to save the current setting to WebXCope™ user profile for registered users.
  • Click on Reset button to get the settings stored in WebXCope™ user profile for registered users.
  • Click on Default button to update with default setting for the display device.
  • Click on Show original content link to fetch content directly without going through WebXCope™ service. A Back to WebXCope™ link will be provided on the resulting page. The device browser should be capable of handling frame content for this option.
  • Click on Cancel link to go back to the previously transcoded content without updating setting parameters.
  • Click on Cancel link to go back to the previously transcoded content without updating setting parameters.
  • Click on Use simpele settings link to go a simpliied setting page without requiring browser cookie support.
For simple setings:
• Check Image off to turn image off.
• Select Screen size as small, medium or large. The size selection might also depend on the processing and network capacities of the mobile device.
• Specify number of characters per display line through Character number calibration to ensure proper horizontal display optimization, especially when image option is turned on.
• Click on Use full settings link for the complete setting page to adjust more options.
• To visit another URL from a transcoded partition page, scroll down to the button and use the WebXCope™ with new URL to proceed.
• To report problems or send suggestions/feedbacks, click on Comments link on top of a partition page and use the form provided.

For further information, please check Frequently Asked Questions for answers.

As WebXCope™ service continuously evolves, Jenner Research welcomes and appreciates all user inputs. Inquiries about Jenner Research should be emailed to info@jennerresearch.com or forwarded through the comment form.