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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2010.15.7.099

An Optimization Technique to Improve Readability of CSS  

Jung, Woo-Sung (서울대학교 공과대학 컴퓨터공학부)
Lee, Eun-Joo (경북대학교 IT대학 컴퓨터학부)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.15, no.7, 2010 , pp. 99-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
For effective maintenance for web applications, it is necessary to improve the readability of the source pages. Though CSS(Cascading Style Sheet) belongs to pure presentation layer in various web constituent entities, CSS codes are often used by inlning and they are sometimes automatically generated by web development tools. The existing studies on CSS optimization have only focused on reducing the size of codes and they did not incorporate the readability or the reusability. In this paper, CSS codes are structured and several criteria for readability are defined to improve the readabilty and reusability. Based on them, the algorithm to improve the readability are proposed. Finally, case study are presented to show the applicability of the proposed algorithm.
Keywords
CSS(Cascading Style Sheet); readability; web application; optimization; web refactoring;
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