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Responsive web design resizes images to the mobile device’s screen. The full image is downloaded on a mobile device and resized to fit the screen. This consumes unnecessary CPU and RAM. Is there any alternative way ?
I think what your looking for is “Adaptive Images”. Essentially serving smaller images based on the device / viewport.
There is quite a lot of talk about this recently but I guess here is one place you can get started:
http://adaptive-images.com/
This would use a server side approach. PHP in this case.
These articles are good to get a general idea of the current situation:
Hope that helps.