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Yes yes yes we do! Bandwidth may be increasing, but as displays get better we are going to be serving up ever increasing assets. Sites are already serving up 2x
by ronaldj 14y ago
Yes yes yes we do! Bandwidth may be increasing, but as displays get better we are going to be serving up ever increasing assets. Sites are already serving up 2x'd versions of images for iOS devices that have higher resolution screens. These higher res images essentially quadruple your file size. On top of that these devices are mobile, which lag behind broadband/ethernet connections AND many of which have data limit caps.
- pornel 14y agoSizes of "Retina" PNGs can be halved just by using better PNG compressors, here's real-world example: http://imageoptim.com/tweetbot.html http://imageoptim.com/tweetbot.html It's annoying that we have the tools. We don't need new format for this, just use what we have already!
- ronaldj 14y agoBut you won't get the file size of a lossy WebP image with an alpha channel.