"Mobile first" designs help here because you typically do a much simpler layout for mobile and then have your CSS to fancy things up hidden inside of an @media

"Mobile first" designs help here because you typically do a much simpler layout for mobile and then have your CSS to fancy things up hidden inside of an @media query. Phones and old browsers get the simple verision, modern browsers on large screens get the advanced version. http://js-mini-shell.nfriedly.com/ http://js-mini-shell.nfriedly.com/ is an example of this - IE 8 and down get the simpler layout and no CSS animations.