Abstract: A style compressor for improving compression of a web document collects all the style attributes referenced by elements of the web document into a central style repository. The style compressor replaces each reference by each of the elements with a class attribute assigned in the central style repository to the replaced style attributes. Next, the style compressor organizes the style attributes in the central style repository and compresses the style attributes into a minimized selection of class attributes each referencing at least one of the style attributes. The style compressor updates the elements of the web document to reference one or more of the minimized selection of class attributes in the central style repository to produce a shorter, more efficiently organized web document.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a style compressor for improving compression of a web document collects all the style attributes referenced by elements of the web document into a central style repository. The style compressor replaces each reference by each of the elements with a class attribute assigned in the central style repository to the replaced style attributes. Next, the style compressor organizes the style attributes in the central style repository and compresses the style attributes into a minimized selection of class attributes each referencing at least one of the style attributes. The style compressor updates the elements of the web document to reference one or more of the minimized selection of class attributes in the central style repository to produce a shorter, more efficiently organized web document.

Abstract: A method and data presentation apparatus for accelerated presentation of segmented data to a user are disclosed. According to the present invention, a data set, including a plurality of data segments each delimited by a segment boundary, is provided. In response to an invocation of an accelerated presentation of the data set, data within the data set is presented to the user at a generally accelerated data rate while a preselected group of data adjacent to each segment boundary is presented at a slower data rate than the generally accelerated data rate, thereby enabling individual data segments within the data set to be distinguished during accelerated presentation. In a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the accelerated presentation of the data set is accomplished by presenting fewer than all data within the data set. Alternatively, in a second embodiment, accelerated presentation is accomplished by decreasing the duration of presentation of each datum within the data set.