# What does "responsive design" mean?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [23.Июнь.2016 17:25:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-responsive-design-mean/46357 "2016-06-23T17:25:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [23.Июнь.2016 19:07:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-responsive-design-mean/46357/3 "2016-06-23T19:07:25Z")

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The desktop design is responsive, try changing browser width and watch what happens.

The reality is that you can’t be “responsive” down to teeny-tiny iPhone 4 size, though – and there is no concept of hover on a phone, like there is on a desktop.

So this is really a pointless terminology argument about the definition of words.

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