Chapter 8. Getting the Most from Images
Working with images in a responsive design world has presented a whole new set of challenges and opportunities. We need to balance optimizing performance along with taking advantage of new capabilities and gorgeous image display on retina screens with minimizing bandwidth for those on slower connections. It's a great idea to have several tools in your toolbox that will help you work with images in a robust and flexible way. We'll be looking at a few tools to deal with images.
In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- Using lazy loading of images so that images are only downloaded if they're scrolled into view
- Using image zoom to allow site visitors to enlarge the part of an image they're most interested in
- Using fullscreen background images and slideshows
