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Mastering CSS

You're reading from   Mastering CSS A guided journey through modern CSS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281585
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rich Finelli Rich Finelli
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. CSS Foundations 2. Ramping Up FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Page Layout with Floats 4. Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3 5. Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu 6. Becoming Responsive 7. Web Fonts 8. Workflow for HiDPI Devices 9. Flexbox, Part 1 10. Flexbox, Part 2 11. Wrapping Up

Source set attribute (srcset)

SVG is still the most preferred way to serve retina images to HiDPI devices because the file size is nearly always smaller than JPG and PNG, and you only need one image for both retina and non- retina devices. But there is another, very good option that's emerged, called srcset. This option isn't meant to replace SVG, but rather complement it, since SVG can't be used for traditional raster images and photos, which are more suited for JPEG and PNG.

What is srcset?

The srcset attribute is simply just a set of images, just like the name implies. What we can do is provide not just one image for the browser to serve, but a set of images that the browser can choose from and only fetch...

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