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If you have a big image meant for desktop users only and you hide it with CSS, I'm pretty sure most modern UAs won't download it.

I don't think that's right; at least, a quick test on the browser I'm using right now (Chrome 29) suggests otherwise, as do this guy's tests from last year: http://timkadlec.com/2012/04/media-query-asset-downloading-r...