I bet I can find 10 different ways people handle responsive images in Markdown, for example in #Eleventy projects… I'm part of the problem. 😅
Shouldn't we try to first list requirements, and then maybe find a single solution for everyone, if possible?
Do you know good tutorials and/or examples about dealing with responsive images that are fluid horizontaly, but with a fixed height?
Using object-fit: cover; in the CSS is easy, but how can we prevent loading many pixels that will be hidden, without using too many <source> in a <picture>?
Responsive images on Shopify with Liquid
We launched the image_tag and image_url filters to help with generating responsive images. Before we dive in, what do these filters do? What are…
we hope that our observations and support will help bring JPEG XL support to the web for all chrome users
— @colinbendell from Shopify
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1178058#c79
YES, please! 🙏
How do you deal with images that need to have a fluid width but fixed height?
I tend to start from the lowest width/height ratio and increase, knowing larger images will have hidden parts above and below… 😔
Anything better?
I accidentally moved my hero image onto Cloudinary (who I also adore!). But, a less-optimised image served from the same origin is always faster than a more-optimised image from a third party. Self-host your static assets! csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets/
True!
But most images are currently not or badly optimized. 😔
They would benefit a lot from an image CDN: resize, compression, modern formats, etc.
