TY - THES U1 - Master Thesis A1 - Clear, William T1 - Introducing Constraints into Web Layouts: Evaluating the Intuitiveness of Current Approaches for Designers N2 - When it comes to web applications and their dynamic content, one seemingly common trouble area is that of layouts. Frequently, web designers resort to frameworks or JavaScript-based solutions to achieve various layouts where the capabilities of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) fall short. Although the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is attempting to address the demand for more robust and concise layout solutions to handle dynamic content with the recent and upcoming specifications, a generic approach to creating layouts using constraint syntax has been proposed and implementations have been created. Yet, the introduction of constraint syntax would change the CSS paradigm in a fundamental way, demanding further analysis to determine the viability of its inclusion in core web standards. This thesis focuses on one particular aspect of the introduction of constraint syntax: how intuitive constraint syntax will be for designers. To this end, an experiment is performed involving participants thinking aloud while reading code snippets. Also, cursor movements are recorded as a proxy for eye movement over the code snippets. The results indicate that, upon first-impression, constraint syntax within CSS is not intuitive for designers. KW - Web Layouts KW - Constraint Satisfaction Problem KW - Usability KW - Cascading Style Sheets KW - Syntax KW - Constraint KW - Webdesign KW - Benutzerfreundlichkeit KW - Cascading Style Sheets Y2 - 2016 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-9119 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-9119 ER -