Both RWD and AWD are

ronaldwilcox — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 05:00:53 +0000

Both RWD and AWD are different. In short, the responsive design is somewhat like liquid and will automatically adapt to the user's device regardless of the screen size. With the adoption of CSS media queries, this kind of design method can auto-change the display style on the basis of the target device. This can well solve the display problems on different screen sizes.

However, the adaptive design is built on the use of static breakpoint, and the page won't be adaptive anymore once it's loaded. This will load the work layout appropriately with the screen size of the device. In this way, you need to take all the mainstream display sizes into account and then design the corresponding layout. It will load and display the designed screen layout when a user visits a webpage. This can definitely make your website user-friendly.

Well, I was interesting about

misharnet — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 05:43:20 +0000

Well, I was interesting about this subject recently, and I found very good article about it at SitePoint, here it is:
Moving Beyond the Responsive Web to the Adaptive Web
Hope you'll find it useful.

I'm going to leave this,

Megan — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:35:21 +0000

I'm going to leave this, because it's a useful question (even though there was a spam response by someone obviously connected to the original poster)

I think there are some variations in how people define these terms. For example, "responsive" web design (lower-case r) can refer to any method that adjusts a website design to fit the size of the device. It doesn't necessarily have to be Responsive Web Design (RWD) as defined in Ethan Marcotte's A List Apart article. RWD specifically uses media queries and flexible grids to adjust the layout to fit the size of the viewport.

I've seen the term "adaptive" used with several different meanings so it's unclear as to what someone might mean by using this term. It might mean using different templates ands tylesheets for different devices. It might mean something more like progressive enhancement, which considers more than just the size of the viewport. This article from Sitepoint describes Adaptive Web Design as something more similar to RESS, where you would change portions of your mark-up depending on the device.

Here are some interesting links:

http://blog.cloudfour.com/defining-responsiveness/
http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/19/responsive-design-adaptive/

I found some good articles about the ambiguity of the term "Adaptive web design" at one point but I can't find them now.