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[Simon]

Originally Posted by LD

'responsive' design, as I understand it, uses css3 and allows images to scale

And there's the rub. On large desktop or notebook computers you can use larger images with larger file sizes. Scaling them means those big image files are all still being sent to the netbook, tablet and smartphone users. Really bad idea.

Plus there's the whole navigation issue, with mobile devices offering touch screens and losing all hover and mouseover usage.

Liquid is about all you can do with most adult sites since most pages have images or graphics of some kind.

Sites that are mostly text...or that are designed first for mobile users (netbook, tablet and smartphone)...are the ones that could benefit most from responsive design techniques.

Here's something worth taking the time to read if you're thinking of putting in the work to create a responsive site:

11 Reasons why Responsive Design isn't that cool