Chapter 3. Managing Images

Cats, dogs and all sorts of memes, the Internet as we know it today is dominated by images. You can open almost any web page and you'll surely find images on the page.

The more interactive our web browsing experience becomes, the more images we tend to use. So, it is tremendously important to ensure that the images we use are optimized and loaded as fast as possible. We should also make sure that we choose the correct image type.

In this chapter we will talk about, why image formats are important, conditional loading, visibility for DOM elements, specifying sizes, media queries, introducing sprite sheets, and caching.

Let's talk basics.