# WebNC: efficient sharing of web applications

## TL;DR

WebNC is a tile-based web application sharing system that efficiently transmits dynamic web pages with minimal bandwidth, compatible across various browsers and devices.

## Contribution

WebNC introduces a tile-based encoding method for web sharing that is optimized for scrolling web pages and works solely with HTML and JavaScript.

## Key findings

- Requires very little bandwidth
- Works on all modern browsers
- Supports mobile platforms

## Abstract

WebNC is a system for efficiently sharing, retrieving and viewing web applications. Unlike existing screencasting and screensharing tools, WebNC is optimized to work with web pages where a lot of scrolling happens. WebNC uses a tile-based encoding to capture, transmit and deliver web applications, and relies only on dynamic HTML and JavaScript. The resulting webcasts require very little bandwidth and are viewable on any modern web browser including Firefox and Internet Explorer as well as browsers on the iPhone and Android platforms.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/0908.3361