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JavaScript package offers a smarter way to serve hi-res images

Given enough time, all simple, previously solved problems of the web eventually rear their ugly heads again.

Remember when limited bandwidth was a huge problem? Then bandwidth was infinite. Now it’s a problem again. And that means serving up images is once again a complex problem with no elegant solution. Its seems simple—Websites should serve the right image to the right screen, high-resolution images to high-resolution devices and low res to the rest. But of course it’s not that simple. Factors like bandwidth as well as screen size and orientation complicate the matter considerably.

Arguably the best solution right now is to send low-res images to every device. Sure, your images might look terrible on high-res screens, but at least you aren’t wasting people’s time or worse, costing them money.

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from Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/javascript-package-offers-a-smar...