Dave Newton Dave Newton is a web developer in Toronto, Canada, and will soon be starting a new role as a front-end deveveloper at Shopify. He strongly believes in making web content accessible and usable, and this goal has made him passionate about web standards, responsive design, progressive enhancement, accessibility, and web performance. He is an active member of the W3C’s Responsive Issues Community Group.
Responsive images have been keeping us on our toes for quite some time, and now that they are getting traction in browsers, they come with a scary problem: the need to efficiently resize all our image assets. The way responsive images work is that an appropriately sized image is sent to each user — small versions for users on small screens, big versions for users on big screens.
It’s... Read More
The <picture> element is a new addition to HTML5 that’s being championed by the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group (RICG). It is intended to provide a declarative, markup-based solution to enable responsive images without the need of JavaScript libraries or complicated server-side detection.
The <picture> element supports a number of different types of fallback content,... Read More
