Surf the internet together : a collaborative web-browser

• Main Author: Yang, Xiong Chen
• Other Authors: Sun Chengzheng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20716
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This report serves as documentation for the completed Final Year Project on Collaborative Browsing on the Internet for the year of 2009. It also narrates the learning experiences undergone by the author while striving to complete the project. Web browsing has become a part of everyone’s life in the current day, especially in a modernized country like Singapore. A further step into this daily activity would be to allow users to collaboratively browse the web, opening a various range of possibilities. Aiming at a user-friendly interface, with least amount of complexity for users, the project makes use of the currently available web technologies. No installation of any third party application is necessary. The evolved web application has the capabilities to capture most of the relevant browser actions that any single client browser window has performed. The actions are then projected through a shared entity to update the other client browsers currently online in the session. Users are also able to interact with each other through an in-built chatting system and share important links through a bookmarking system. Ensuring the quality of the production, the web application has undergone several important testing modules specific to its functionalities. Through this systematic testing, important functionalities have been guaranteed to be in working order and better serve purposes of users of the system.