Web resource compatibility with web applications

• US 10,191,986 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2014
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Rossi, Jacob S., Jansen, John C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Taelor
• Application Number:
  US14/456,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20160042070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,632 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running

Abstract

Techniques for web resource compatibility with web applications are described. According to one or more implementations, an indication of a request to navigate a web application to a web resource is received. Based on the request, a compatibility service is queried regarding compatibility status of the web resource with the web application. According to one or more embodiments, if a compatibility issue between the web resource and the web application is identified, a compatibility element is provided to mitigate the compatibility issue. At least some embodiments enable a user to provide feedback regarding presentation of the web resource by the web application with the compatibility element applied. At least some embodiments notify a developer of the web resource about a compatibility issue of the web resource with the web application.

Claims

1. A client device comprising:

one or more processors; and

computer-readable storage media storing instructions thereon that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including;

receiving an indication of a request to navigate a web application to a web resource;

querying a compatibility service regarding a compatibility status of the web resource with the web application;

receiving a notification from the compatibility service of a known compatibility issue with the web resource, the notification including a compatibility element comprising injectable code that, when executed by the web application, mitigates the compatibility issue by intercepting calls made by the web resource and adjusting at least one characteristic associated with the calls;

responsive to receiving the notification from the compatibility service, injecting the compatibility element in connection with launching the web resource to mitigate the compatibility issue;

causing a visual indicator to be displayed indicating that the compatibility element is being applied to the web resource, the visual indicator enabling a user to provide feedback regarding presentation of the web resource via the web application; and

receiving feedback from the user via the visual indicator and causing to be communicated to the compatibility service an indication of whether the compatibility element successfully mitigated the compatibility issue based at least in part on the feedback received from the user.

2. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein the web application is a web browser, the web resource is a web page, and the known compatibility issue involves compatibility of the web page with the web browser.

3. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein said receiving the notification indicates that the client device is included in a subset of clients selected to receive the compatibility element.

4. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein adjusting the at least one characteristic associated with the calls includes at least one of:

changing one or more arguments passed in the calls between the web resource and the web application;

handling one or more operations associated with the calls in lieu of the calls being handled by a handler originally associated with the calls;

or

redirecting the handling of the one or more operations from the handler to a different handler.

5. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual indicator enables the user to provide positive feedback regarding the presentation of the web resource via the web application.

6. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual indicator enables the user to provide negative feedback regarding the presentation of the web resource via the web application.

7. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein the operations further include disabling the compatibility element responsive to the user providing negative feedback regarding the presentation of the web resource via the web application.

8. A client device as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual indicator is displayed in conjunction with display of the web resource via the web application.

9. A method comprising:

receiving a query regarding a compatibility status of a web resource with a web application;

ascertaining that there is a known compatibility issue with the web resource relative to the web application;

identifying a compatibility element corresponding to the known compatibility issue from a data structure that includes a plurality of compatibility elements each individually configured to mitigate a corresponding compatibility issue;

determining that a client from which the query was received is included in a subset of clients that requested the web resource and is to receive the compatibility element configured to mitigate the known compatibility issue;

communicating a notification of the known compatibility issue to the client, the notification including the compatibility element, the compatibility element comprising injectable code that, when executed by the web application, mitigates the compatibility issue by intercepting calls made by the web resource and adjusting at least one characteristic associated with the calls;

receiving feedback from the client indicating whether the compatibility element successfully mitigated the compatibility issue with the web resource; and

adjusting a number of clients of the subset that are to receive the compatibility element based, in part, on the feedback from the client by

increasing the number of clients in the subset responsive to receiving positive feedback application of the compatibility element.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the notification includes a visual indicator to be displayed via the web application to enable a user to provide the feedback indicating whether the compatibility element successfully mitigated the compatibility issue with the web resource.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising receiving additional feedback from one or more additional clients of the subset of clients, the additional feedback indicating whether the compatibility element successfully mitigated the compatibility issue with the web resource for the one or more additional clients.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

decreasing the number of clients in the subset that are to receive the compatibility element responsive to receiving the negative feedback from the subset of clients regarding presentation of the web resource via the web application with the compatibility element applied.

13. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising increasing or decreasing a number of clients to which the notification of the known compatibility issue is communicated in response to receiving user input to increase or decrease a number of clients in the subset that are to receive the compatibility element.

14. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising sending, to clients to which the notification was communicated, an updated notification indicating to disable the compatibility element based on the negative feedback regarding presentation of the web resource via the web application with the compatibility element applied.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising notifying a developer of the web resource regarding feedback received that indicates the compatibility element mitigates the known compatibility issue with the web resource.

16. A method as recited in claim 15, wherein a notification of the known compatibility issue that is sent to the developer indicates how to fix the known compatibility issue with the web resource.

17. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising identifying the known compatibility issue by:

crawling the web resource to identify the compatibility issue with the web resource by matching a pattern indicative of the known compatibility issue that is exhibited by the web resource; and

maintaining information about the known compatibility issue with the web resource.

18. A method as recited in claim 17, wherein the pattern is indicative of a known compatibility issue with mobile-specific web resources.

19. A method comprising:

identifying that a web resource exhibits a known compatibility issue with a web application;

identifying a compatibility element corresponding to the known compatibility issue from a data structure that includes a plurality of compatibility elements each individually configured to mitigate a corresponding compatibility issue;

communicating a compatibility notification of the known compatibility issue to a subset of clients that requested the web resource, the compatibility notification including the compatibility element, the compatibility element comprising injectable code that, when executed by the web application, mitigates the compatibility issue by intercepting calls made by the web resource and adjusting at least one characteristic associated with the calls;

receiving, from at least a threshold number of clients, positive feedback indicating whether the compatibility element successfully mitigated the compatibility issue with the web resource;

generating, responsive to receiving the positive feedback from the threshold number of clients, a developer notification to be sent to the developer of the web resource, the developer notification including an indication that the web resource exhibits the known compatibility issue and an indication of a fix for the known compatibility issue; and

sending the developer notification to the developer of the web resource.

20. A method as recited in claim 19, further comprising communicating the compatibility element to additional clients responsive to receiving the positive feedback.