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. As designers and developers, we have an enormous amount of power to shape how the web works. One of the biggest impacts we can have is to make our websites more performant, which will improve our users’ experiences and even make our content available to whole new markets. Cutting image weight is a relatively simple and hugely impactful way to increase performance, and I hope the information outlined above helps you make a difference to your users.
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The element supports a number of different types of fallback content, but the current implementation of these fallbacks is problematic. In this article Dave Newton will explore how the fallbacks work, how they fail and what can be done about it.
