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Mastering Responsive Web Design

You're reading from   Mastering Responsive Web Design Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550234
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Zea Ricardo Zea
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Preface 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first? 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design 8. Responsive E-mails Index

The <picture> element and the srcset and sizes attributes

Let me start by saying that there is no 100 percent optimal solution to the image issues in RWD. This is because of the current lack of support for the recommended properties, or because there's a double download of assets. Granted, Dave Newton's article in http://ww1.smashingmagzine.com/, How To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images, tries to address this issue (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/10/how-to-avoid-duplicate-downloads-in-responsive-images/).

However, that solution is very verbose. If you have to work with many images, this solution may not be the best option and allowing a double download starts making more sense. Every project is different, so trying to make the most informed decisions possible is incredibly important.

As soon as browser vendors decide to fully support any of the solutions mentioned here, there won't be a need to worry about double downloads or polyfills of any kind...

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