The web browser is a CPU-intensive program. Especially on mobile devices, webpages load too slowly, expending significant time in processing a document’s appearance. Due to powe...
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
Embracing service-oriented architectures in the context of large systems, such as the Web, rises a set of new and challenging issues: increased size and load in terms of users and...
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...
Security in browsers is based upon users trusting a set of root Certificate Authorities (called Trust Anchors) which they may know little or nothing about. Browser vendors face a...