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The evolution of web development for mobile devices

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Building websites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 4
April 2013
90 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2436256
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