The srcset attribute takes a comma-separated list of image URLs, each with an x descriptor stating the device-pixel-ratio that that file is intended for. Using srcset, we’d mark up our image like so: We want to send large.jpg only to users with high-resolution screens. To do this, we’ll use the first tool that the new specification gives us for grouping and describing image sources: the srcset attribute. Let’s start simply, with a fixed-width image that we want to adapt to varying device-pixel-ratios. ( Image credit) The device-pixel-ratio Use Case Rearranging images across various resolutions is relatively easy, however, loading different images (and only them) depending on the user’s resolution is quite difficult. The new specification includes features for all of these cases. We’ll call this the type-switching use case. We might want to send a fancy new format such as WebP to browsers that can render it, and fall back to trusty old JPEGs in browsers that don’t. Finally, different browsers support different image formats.We’ll call this the art-direction use case. We might want to crop the images or even subtly alter their content. Sometimes we’ll want to adapt our images in ways that go beyond simple scaling.We’ll call tackling both problems simultaneously the variable-sized-image use case Note that these two use cases are closely related: To solve both, we’ll want our images to be available in multiple resolutions so that they scale efficiently.responsive), then our images will need to squish and stretch to fit it. Let’s call this the device-pixel-ratio use case. We want high-resolution screens to get high-resolution images, but we don’t want to send those images to users who wouldn’t see all of those extra pixels. Our images need to be able to render crisply at different device-pixel-ratios.the ways in which we want our images to adapt. The time to start learning this stuff is now!īefore we get to any of the ( shiny! new!) markup, let’s look at the relevant ways in which browsing environments vary, i.e. The new specification has achieved broad consensus and is being implemented in Chrome, Opera and Firefox and Edge ( link) as I type. It gives authors semantic ways to group multiple versions of the same image, each version having technical characteristics that make it more or less suitable for a particular user.
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The latest specification of the element is the result of years of debate on how to make images adapt. Images have been the number one obstacle to implementing truly adaptable and performant responsive pages - pages that scale both up and down, efficiently tailoring themselves to both the constraints and the affordances of the browsing context at hand. Authors - wanting their images to look crisp in huge layouts and on high-resolution screens - began sending larger and larger sources to everyone the average size of an image file ballooned very smart people called responsive web design “ unworkably slow”. HTML authors began to really feel these limitations when high-resolution screens and responsive layouts hit the web like a one-two punch. And perhaps the great promise of the web, far from fulfilled as yet, is accessibility, regardless of difficulties, to information." "Everything I’ve said so far could be summarized as: make pages which are adaptable.… Designing adaptable pages is designing accessible pages. Everything about them has been stubbornly fixed: their size, format and crop, all set in stone by a single src. Images are some of the most important pieces of information on the web, but over the web’s 25-year history, they haven’t been very adaptable at all. There is [no reason to wait for responsive images we can actually have them very soon Today’s article complements Tim Wright’s article and explains exactly how we can use the upcoming element and srcset, with simple fallbacks for legacy browsers. A few days ago, we published an article on Picturefill 2.0, a perfect polyfill for responsive images.
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