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Hero images present unique challenges for responsive designs. During a recent responsive images audit, we found a unique solution which I wanted to share. What are hero images? Until a couple years ago, I was unfamiliar with the term… More

When you start incorporating the new responsive images standards across your site, the task can seem daunting. How do you know which standards to use and where? How will you maintain the new markup and image sizes? We have… More

Responsive images have landed in Chrome and Opera. They are in development for Firefox and Webkit. They are under consideration for Internet Explorer. This is an amazing accomplishment. To get here, the following happened including many firsts: The Responsive Images… More

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 that is best used for… More

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 ever happened to the image-set()… More

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 resizing. I’ve pulled together a spreadsheet of the image… More

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. But you should start using… More

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 An Event Apart Austin, I… More

Confession time: For most of my career, I despised form elements. Checkboxes, radios, selects and file inputs seemed to gleefully defy what little control I expected from an HTML element. Their penchant for idiosyncracy drove me to almost as much… More

Even before smartphones came along and dashed any hope for a 960-pixel-wide web, designers and organizations have struggled with the challenge of prioritizing and composing content that scrolls. Our screens act like windows to content of variable… More