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Responsive design have been more noisy these days among web developer and designers , because Responsive web plan (RWD) is a way to deal with  ideal review experience for web presentation and route with at least re sizing, panning, and looking over an extensive variety of gadgets – from desktop PC screens to cell telephone.
However if we consider the SharePoint 2013 , Device channel is specifically introduced to manage the different design over different devices – Now what to choose and why ? Please go through on following points of differences  and make your decision 🙂
| Device Channel ( DC ) | Responsive Web Design ( RWD ) |
|---|---|
| Device channels are used when we want to make our SharePoint site viewable on different devices. | Responsive Web Design makes the design/presentation of the page fluid enough to be adjusted based upon the device screen. |
| Different design on different devices. | Different presentation on different devices. |
| Device channels gives flexibility to target specific content of a site on different devices. | Responsive design adjusts the presentation as per the size of the device screen. |
| Component will be loaded only for the specific device only. | Responsive design you can hide component by CSS but still those components will be there on the screen and hence they will be loaded on the page. |
| specific master page and CSS for different devices | Same master page and CSS for all the devices. |
| This will work in all the browsers. | Old browsers might won’t render the content correctly. |
| Minimal Content Rendering is possible for low-bandwidth devices. | Content can’t be minimized for very low bandwidth devices. |
| Not friendly with Search Indexing as Same URL renders different HTML. | It’s a search engine and indexing friendly. |
| It works only for publishing site. | This design supports for all the site templets. |
For More information , please click here that describes right approach for user experience across devices by Responsive Web Design and SharePoint 2013 device channels.
Happy SharePoint Running 🙂
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