The easiest way to make a responsive web application perform well is to minimize requests and the amount of data that is downloaded. The most dramatic way of doing this, for mobile applications particularly, is to download just the data you need to use. There are additional ways of doing this, such as 'Mobile first', Prioritized content, Intelligent markup and Compression, but the most important task is to minimize the data-download requirements.… Read more
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is starting to take off as a lightweight way to adapt websites for different screen sizes and resolutions, but does it do enough? Dino Esposito thinks we can go further, and offer a better experience to all users, by combining RWD with a server-side approach.… Read more
