Janak Parekh
10-26-2004, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/102004/Pen_stroke_cuts_PDA_Web_clutter_102004.html' target='_blank'>http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/...ter_102004.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The proliferation of the Internet and the increasing popularity of handheld computing devices pose a challenge: it is difficult to read and navigate through Web pages displayed on small screens. Several research teams have addressed the problem with various methods of zooming in on relevant content from a Web page to make it easier to view. Researchers from Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Asia, and Tsinghua University in China have devised an interface that goes a step further by allowing a user to zoom in on relevant content and collapse irrelevant content with a single pen stroke. The interface could eventually be included as an extension to small-screen Web browsers."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20041026-MSPDAZoom.jpg" /><br /><br />While MS Research is generally quite separate from other divisions in the company, this technology looks practical, and I hope MS will implement it in Pocket PCs someday. 8)