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Isn't optimized for mobile phone much better than a responsive website on mobile? It would seem that unnecessary things are downloaded in a responsive site that may in fact be hidden. Whereas a mobile optimized site is loading less JS, CSS and graphics/artwork/template files.

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Yeah in my experience "going responsive" is only one step. I did this for http://rugbydump.com (partly still in progress).

There's a lot of `if (IS_MOBILE)` around the place, to not download a large amount of extra stuff on mobiles.

That's good. I think people look at responsive sites as that's all they need to do and for the most part I haven't come across many discussions about taking it further.

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