Title: Design patterns and coding practices for performance-optimised JQuery Mobile cultural sites

Authors: Sotiris P. Christodoulou; Andreas B. Gizas

Addresses: Computer and Informatics Engineering Department, Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras, Hellas, Greece ' HPCLab, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Hellas, Greece

Abstract: Mobile clients have been on the rise and websites are becoming more accessible by portable and wireless devices. More specifically, the use of mobile devices is increasing rapidly in the cultural and museum sectors. Mobile sites are built on standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and other modern web technologies like JQuery Mobile, and they run on any mobile platform with a modern, standards-compliant web browser. However, the performance and usability of such sites are often insufficient. In this work, we study the requirements of mobile cultural sites, assess the performance of jQuery Mobile websites, investigate how the synergy with other technologies or techniques could be used to improve performance and conclude to a set of design patterns and coding practices, focused on jQuery Mobile cultural sites.

Keywords: performance evaluation; jQuery Mobile; JQM; mobile sites; cultural content; coding practices; design patterns; cultural sites; mobile devices; mobile sites; culture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2016.075983

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2016 Vol.5 No.1, pp.50 - 70

Received: 03 Feb 2015
Accepted: 05 Oct 2015
Published online: 20 Apr 2016 *

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