While often ballyhooed as a panacea for today’s wide variety of computing device screen sizes, “responsive” websites that claim to display well on all devices often end up being more trouble than they’re worth. The problem? These responsive websites — or sites that auto-sense a device’s screen size and then respond by reconfiguring text and graphics to fit that screen size — often render on desktop PCs with overly large text and other overblown features that are tedious to wade through. Granted, the impetus behind responsive Web design does make sense. Web designers using responsive design take great pains to ensure that anything that appears on a traditional-size website will look good on the smallest of screens—even a smartphone.
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