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One of the main reasons why we need solutions for responsive images is because the <img> element is insufficient. It only has one src and we need multiple sources. Given that fact, it may be surprising that we’re going to… More

Over the last few years, we’ve written a quite a few articles about responsive images. Now that responsive images have landed in browsers, it seemed like a good time to step back and cover the basics for those… More

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