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Don't retinafy at all. You should not assume your user has LTE speeds on his shiny iPad. As long as webdevs won't have a better navigator.connection, retinafyin
by mddw 14y ago
Don't retinafy at all. You should not assume your user has LTE speeds on his shiny iPad. As long as webdevs won't have a better navigator.connection, retinafying should be avoided.
On the web, loading times trump beauty.
- madrobby 14y agoLarger image dimensions don't mean larger file sizes, see http://mir.aculo.us/2012/08/06/high-resolution-images-and-file-size/ http://mir.aculo.us/2012/08/06/high-resolution-images-and-fi... for an explanation.
- mddw 14y agoYes, it does. Not linear larger files, but larger files at constant quality. His examples are conveniently chosen to sell his book. 20% bigger is 20% too much for a non essential asset.
- cheald 14y agoDouble image dimensions don't mean double file sizes, but they do mean larger file sizes. If you've figured out how to display the same non-vector images at full quality at arbitrary file dimensions with the same filesize, then you're going to be very, very rich.