Eric Portis
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great news: there are two on-the-horizion web platform features that are trying to make no-jank, fixed-aspect-ratio, fluid-width images a natural part of the web platform.
What does the image decoding attribute actually do?
So use it on your `` elements if you want. It's maybe good that image components for libraries use this, or that platforms like WordPress set it by…
Cropping Images with CSS While Keeping a Focal Point in the Center
This is a lovely way to deal with image crop and focal point with CSS only! 😍 And I love that Johannes put this warning in the beginning: While client-side…
New Recommendations for Ecommerce Images
For ecommerce companies—particularly for those selling apparel—it likely makes sense to prioritize image quality above file size. This is a really…
Apparently, an image whose part above the fold is indeed the largest, but of which only a small part can be seen, can be considered an LCP element, even if another image has a larger part visible... 😭
You can see this for my photography site in this WebPageTest result:
https://www.webpagetest.org/vitals.php?test=230606_BiDcN4_4NJ&run=3&cached=0#lcp
Looks like we will soon have JPEG XL in Safari! 🥳
Barry Pollard
Johannes Odland
Jason Grigsby