Google Inc.

John Joseph Jerger

David Ross Ferguson

Methods and apparatuses for formatting web pages through categorizing properties and values for specifying the appearance of web pages. In one aspect, a method includes: grouping styles into a set of scheme groups, one or more of the styles being capable of specifying an aspect of appearance of an element of a web page; defining a plurality of combinations of styles to create a plurality of schemes respectively for the scheme groups; assigning one scheme from one of the scheme groups to a first web page; and generating a second web page to contain content of the first web page and styles of the schemes assigned to the first web page.

Methods and apparatuses for formatting web pages

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to a cross-browser compliant web page zoom feature. A method includes receiving a web page with machine-readable instructions and a zoom factor for the web page; processing a document object model representation of the web page in accordance with the machine-readable instructions; and displaying the web page in a web browser according to the document object model representation. In that method, the processing includes modifying parameters pertaining to content in accordance with the zoom factor, if one or more scalable content parameters exist in the document object model representation, and modifying parameters pertaining to layout in accordance with the zoom factor, if one or more scalable layout parameters exist in the document object model representation.

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John Joseph Jerger