An Optimization Technique to Improve Readability of CSS

Woosung Jung; LEE， EUN JOO

Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information

Abbr : JKSCI
2010, 15(7), pp.99-108
Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
Research Area : Computer Science

Woosung Jung ¹ , LEE， EUN JOO ²

¹ 서울대학교
² 경북대학교

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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