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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

by Ben Frain
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Responsive images

Serving the appropriate image to users based upon the particulars of their device and environment has always been a tricky problem. This problem was highlighted with the advent of responsive web design, the very nature of which is to serve a single code base to each and every device.

The intrinsic problem of responsive images

As an author, you cannot know or plan for every possible device that may visit your site now or in the future. Only a browser knows the particulars of the device using it (screen size and device capabilities for example) at the moment it serves up and renders the content.

Conversely only the author (you and I) know what versions of an image we have at our disposal. For example, we may have three versions of ...

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