Responsive web design (RWD) or responsive design is an approach to web design that aims to make web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes from minimum to maximum display size to ensure usability and satisfaction.. A responsive design adapts the web-page layout to the viewing environment by using techniques such as fluid proportion-based …

The mobile web was first popularized by the silicon valley company, Unwired Planet. In 1997, Unwired Planet, Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola started the WAP Forum to create and harmonize the standards to ease the transition to bandwidth networks and small display devices. The WAP standard was built on a three-layer, middleware architecture that fueled the early growth of the …

Underlying technology. The mobile browser usually connects via cellular network, or increasingly via Wireless LAN, using standard HTTP over TCP/IP and displays web pages written in HTML, XHTML Mobile Profile (), or WML (which evolved from HDML).WML and HDML are stripped-down formats suitable for transmission across limited bandwidth, and wireless data connection …

NTT DoCoMo of Japan adopted Adobe Flash Lite in 2003 to enhance mobile applications' functionality. In 2008, Google brought Google Gears to Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices to support platform-neutral mobile applications in offline mode. Google Gears for mobile devices is a mobile browser extension for developing rich web applications.

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for all use), in the week from 7–13 November 2016, "mobile" (meaning smartphones) alone (without tablets) overtook desktop for the first time and by the end of the year smartphones were in the majority.Since 27 October, the desktop has not shown a majority, even on weekdays. Previously, according to StatCounter press release, …

Traditional PC applications consist only of 1 tier, which resides on the client machine, but web applications lend themselves to an multi-tiered approach by nature. Though many variations are possible, the most common structure is the three-tiered application. In its most common form, the three tiers are called presentation, application and storage.A web browser is the first tier …

A web page (or webpage) is a hypertext document on the World Wide Web.Web pages are delivered by a web server to the user and displayed in a web browser. A website consists of many web pages linked together under a common domain name.The name "web page" is a metaphor of paper pages bound together into a book

Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google Maps, CARTO, Mapbox, Bing …

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.Companies providing web hosting services are sometimes called web hosts.. Typically, web hosting requires the following: one or more servers to act as the host(s) for the …

A mobile development framework is a software framework that is designed to support mobile app development.It is a software library that provides a fundamental structure to support the development of applications for a specific environment. Frameworks can be in three categories: native frameworks for platform-specific development, mobile web app frameworks, and hybrid …