I've been using a polyfill called picturefill. It will serve the necessary image based on media query. Very few people, if any, change browser viewport sizes while browsing like devs do in testing. Only the appropriate image gets served. No crazy amounts of server requests.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:48 AM, Crest Christopher <crestchristop...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Swapping will require more page requests from the server. The other solution > mentioned requires by default a 5K image if you go by the highest screen > possible, just so you can scale down appropriately without blurred images. > > I suppose gone are the days I could find an image at 800x600 do photo magic > to the image in Photoshop then merge it with the design. > > Christopher > >> Karl DeSaulniers <mailto:k...@designdrumm.com> >> Thursday, November 06, 2014 12:29 AM >> +1 >> >> Karl DeSaulniers >> Design Drumm >> http://designdrumm.com >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] >> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >> List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >> Norman Fournier <mailto:nor...@normanfournier.com> >> Thursday, November 06, 2014 12:24 AM >> Hello, >> >> No, the idea is to swap out higher resolution images for the higher >> resolution screens so that no visitor ever has to see distorted, pixellated >> images. >> >> Norman > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
