Limiting the image density on mobile devices drasticaly improves performance, with no visual loss, so we did it!
I still wish it was much easier than dealing with <picture> and x descriptors for fluid images… 😞
With a <img maxdensity="2.5" …> attribute for example!
If you agree, comment:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4421
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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>?
I love #SpeedCurve's simple and efficient Core Web Vitals Real User Monitoring, especially when everything is green! 🥳
This is a real e-commerce site, with many real users everyday. After a few months of performance optimisation.
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It is natural to think that the problem with images in container queries is a mere oversight. We used to only have media queries to design with. Now…
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