Web Performance Optimization and User Experience

A history of web design that traces the ideas that survived: progressive enhancement, separating structure from style, and designing for devices that do not exist yet. No code, just approaches that keep working.

Jeremy Keith

A survey that starts with the problem of fixed width layouts and then covers flexible grids, flexible images, media queries, and responsive typography. Includes worked examples of responsive sites.

Harb, Kapellari, Luong and Spot

A short technical paper on the techniques that let one site adapt to phones, tablets, desktops, and smart TVs, with code samples. Focused on cutting the effort needed to keep a responsive site running.

Waseem I. Bader and Abdelaziz I. Hammouri

Compares client side and server side approaches to responsive design and measures how each one affects load time. Helpful when you have to justify a technical choice with numbers.

Krystian Manczak