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I wrote recently about why you shouldn’t use <picture> for responsive images most of the time. In short, my argument is that most responsive images fall under the resolution switching use case and…
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I wrote recently about why you shouldn’t use <picture> for responsive images most of the time. In short, my argument is that most responsive images fall under the resolution switching use case and…
Now that responsive images have landed in Chrome and Opera, I’ve started working on a flowchart to help people decide how to use these new features. This work led me to wonder what…
Responsive images are landing soon and many organizations are looking for ways to resize images. Thankfully, there are a number of startups, established companies, and open source solutions for image optimization. I’ve pulled together…
Browser support for the picture specification is landing and as Marcos Cáceres said, it is time to “go forth and <picture> all the things!” Except you shouldn’t. You shouldn’t <picture> all the things.
Last year, I wrote 8 Guidelines and 1 Rule for Responsive Images based on some consulting work we had done for a client with over 800,000 images on their site. In preparation for…
I normally don’t write a post simply to link to another article, but if you’ve enjoyed the things I’ve written about responsive images, you really should read what Eric Portis wrote about Srcset and…
Last year, I wrote about the challenges of picking responsive images breakpoints and how I found it a nearly unsolvable problem. It has vexed me since. But I have a new idea on how…
“Wait? What was that Bruce Lawson just said?” That was my reaction last week as I listened to the audio from Bruce’s presentation at Responsive Day Out conference. What had Bruce said…
I recently had the opportunity to work with a company that is moving to a responsive design and has over 800,000 images on their site. These images come from all over the world. I learned…
As long as I’m posting puzzles, riddle me this: what happens to the browser’s lookahead pre-parser if we find the holy grail of responsive images—an image format that works for all resolutions? What is…