Folk looking for that all in one solution won’t find it. And those abandoning everything that’s gone before, instead of redefining it’s purpose, are de-tooling themselves at the very moment we need all our tools at our disposal.

RWD is definitely emerging as a thought process rather than a black and white linear technique.

Between you and Mark Boulton, I’m loving the great reads on the latest evolution in our industry.

Now granted, neither are necessarily ideal (and both are decidedly not “mobile first”, arguably the better way to be design responsively). But as far as taking baby steps into responsiveness and getting a feel for the mobile context, you can add media queries and a mobile stylesheet to a legacy web site (as long as it’s otherwise designed with CSS layout, etc.) and get an admirable mobile presentation for an otherwise fixed-width site. The original fixed-width site doesn’t necessarily need to be redesigned to do this; you just need to add a mobile presentation that kicks in at the right device widths.

Is this optimized for all mobile devices? No. And is it optimized for mobile performance in all respects? No. So is it perfect? Hardly. But it’s still a solid start, and delivers a responsive mobile version of a site to most visitors.