The end of responsive images (opens in new tab)

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40 pointsOuterVale1mo ago17 comments

17 comments

markstos1mo ago

Summary: author is a fan of the new sizes="auto" and loading="lazy" browser features.

znort_1mo ago

thanks, i couldn't bother reading the thing due to the ridiculous chest-thumping and self-aggrandizing.

mrbluecoat1mo ago

The author was waiting 14 years to excitedly share this?

IMHO, feels more like a polyfill than a final industry solution.

B56b1mo ago

What, why? This is the web, so it has to be a solution that can handle old browser versions. Take away the old version and it's as small as it can be.

tosti1mo ago

What a lovely story. Sad to see the others don't like it.

The most incredible thing is that a group of enthousiasts can join in the standards making process and actually move companies as big as Google and Apple. Even just a tiny bit.

felooboolooomba1mo ago

To the author: please consider putting a summary at top of the article.

DonnyV1mo ago

I can't believe this doesn't mention Image Seam Carving. Surprise this was never built into browsers.

https://trekhleb.dev/js-image-carver/

halapro1mo ago

I think this is far too risky.

This doesn't help you if you want to save bandwidth, it worsens it.

It doesn't help you if you custom-crop images depending on the viewport size, because if you go that far to art direct, then you're not going to like the result of automated and unsupervised seam carving.

Just publish 3 sizes, maybe crop the smallest one if the focus area is too small. Done.

kmoser1mo ago

Building something like this into a browser would be a bad idea, as it's incredibly resource-intensive.

xnx1mo ago

I'd seen the technique, but never visualized like that. Very cool.

AlienRobot1mo ago

On the other hand you could just img { width: 100%; height: auto; } and still have more performance than websites that just send uncompressed PNGs in the hero.

flufluflufluffy1mo ago

> We’re not here to talk about picture.

Bro you just spewed 2 long paragraphs about picture at me. Don’t talk to me like that.

Sivart131mo ago

As someone who has seen srcset and picture but never used them in practice, the background was kind of useful. but I can understand people finding it annoying

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