Responsive Images Chart

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CURRENT Techniques

Requires server-side component?

Requires JavaScript?

How many add'l resolutions of image are downloaded? (Zero is ideal.)

Use valid syntax?

Requires additional markup?

Allows for crop/zoom art direction?

Does it to bandwidth testing?

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Native JS

jQuery

0 additional images

1 image

Attributes in target IMG element

Utilizes <NOSCRIPT> tag

Special markup

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Picturefill

N

Y

N

??

N

N

Y

Y

Y

N

https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill

http://scottjehl.github.com/picturefill/

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Adaptive Images

Y (.htaccess, Apache 2, PHP, GD Lib)

Y (small amount)

N

X

Y

N (overwritten by PHP?)

N

N

N

N

http://adaptive-images.com/

http://adaptive-images.com/

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HiSRC

N

Y

Y (plugin)

X

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

https://github.com/teleject/hisrc

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HiSRC (alt. transparent GIF + Media Query approach)

N

Y

Y (plugin)

X

Y

N

N

N

Y

Y

https://github.com/teleject/hisrc

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Responsive Images

Y (.htaccess)

Y

N

X

Y

Y (url params)

N

Y

Y

Y

https://github.com/filamentgroup/Responsive-Images

http://filamentgroup.com/examples/responsive-images-new/demos/A-Default/demo.html

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Responsive Images Alt

Y (.htaccess)

Y

N

X

Y

Y (url params)

N

Y

Y

N

https://github.com/allmarkedup/responsive-images-alt

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Foresight.js

Kinda (file to test)

Y

N

X

Y

Y

Y

Y

Kinda

N

https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js

http://foresightjs.appspot.com/demos/

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src.sencha.io

Third party

N

N

X

Y

N

N

Kinda (prefix src)

N

N

http://www.sencha.com/products/io/

http://www.sencha.com/learn/how-to-use-src-sencha-io/

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riloadr

N

Y

Optional

X

N (missing src)

Y

Optionally

Y

N

N

https://github.com/tubalmartin/riloadr

https://github.com/tubalmartin/riloadr/tree/master/demos

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Responsive Enhance

N

Y

N

X

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

https://github.com/joshje/Responsive-Enhance

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rwdImages

N

Y

Y (plugin)

X

Y

Y

N

Y (gif in src)

Y (through CSS)

N

https://github.com/stowball/jQuery-rwdImages

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Retina.ja

N

Y

N

X

Y

N

N

Y

Kinda

N

http://retinajs.com/

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Content Aware Resizing

Y (php)

Y (small amount)

N

X

Y

N

N

Y

Y (maintenance through PHP file)

N

http://www.craig-russell.co.uk/2011/01/22/responsive-images-and-context-aware-image-sizing.html

http://craig-russell.co.uk/examples/getimage/demo.html

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Doubletake

Kinda (sencha.io)

Y

Y

X

Y

N

N

N

N

N

http://www.grahambird.co.uk/lab/doubletake/

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Responsive Images with PHP and jQuery

Y (php)

Y

Y

X

N (missing src)

Y

Y

Y

Kinda

N

http://www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk/posts/view/responsive_images_with_php_and_jquery/

http://www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk/SkeletonResizeImages/

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Responsive Images with Cookies

Y (php an cookies)

Y (small amount)

N

X

Y

N

N

Y

Kinda

N

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/responsive-images-using-cookies/

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Testing Responsive Images

N

Y

Y

X

Y

Y (in noscript)

Y

Y

Y

N

http://www.monoliitti.com/images/

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Creating responsive images using the noscript tag

N

Y

N

X

Y

Y (in noscript)

Y

Y

Y

N

http://www.headlondon.com/our-thoughts/technology/posts/creating-responsive-images-using-the-noscript-tag

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Responsive Images and TinySRC (Now Sencha.IO)

Y (sencha.io, .htaccess)

Y

N

X

Y

Y (url params)

N

Y

Y

N

http://blog.trasatti.it/2011/05/responsive-images-and-tinysrc.html

http://ri.logme.mobi/demo.html

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Responsive Images Right Now

N

N

N

X

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

http://csswizardry.com/2011/07/responsive-images-right-now/

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Responsive context aware images without cookies or server logic

N

Y

Y

X

Y

Y (in div)

Y

Y

Y

N

https://gist.github.com/1200270

http://nerd.vasilis.nl/code/responsive-images/noscript.html

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WURFL Server Side Responsive Images

Y (database)

N

N

X

Y

N

N

Kinda (prefix src)

N

N

https://github.com/carsonmcdonald/ServerSideResponsiveImageExample#readme

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FUTURE POSSIBILITIES

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Nicolas' CSS psuedo element technique

N

Maybe (depends on spec)

N

Y

N

http://nicolasgallagher.com/responsive-images-using-css3/

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Picture Element

N

Probably not

N

Y

Maybe? (network api queries)

http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/

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Flashpix / New format

N

N

Y

N

Maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPix

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srclist attribute in HTML (has semantic src but links to media query list datalist thingy)

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src prefix in CSS

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src property in CSS