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type: link

title: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
linkurl: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-images-and-web-standards-at-the-turning-point/
author: Matthias Kretschmann

date: 2012-05-22 06:23:26+00:00

category: design
tags:
- mobile
- responsive
- retina
---

Good overview about the patterns currently being discussed:

> Recently, all of the ongoing discussion around responsive images just got real: a solution is currently being discussed with the WHATWG. And we’re in the thick of it now: we’re throwing around references to `picture` and `img set`; [...]

The markup pattern that gets selected stands to have a tremendous influence on how developers build websites in the future. Not just responsive or adaptive websites, either. All websites.

Naturally I'm in the `picture` camp, this just makes most sense to me.