Since more and more devices are now network connectable, a user can enjoy one service on two or more devices. For example, a smart phone is used to operate the TV, or move a game currently displayed on the TV to the same smart phone, and continue playing the game. In order to realize these transferable services, developers must control communication between multiple devices. This greatly increases the development costs compared to single screen web applications. Factors include increases in code quantity and skill demanded from the developers. In this paper, we propose a framework that greatly simplifies the development of multi-screen web applications with JavaScript. We prototype the framework, and compare the proposal to an existing approach in terms of development cost. The results show that our framework allows developers to build multi-screen web applications with much less effort and time than the existing framework.
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