Jon Arne Sæterås (jonarnes most places on the webs) is a mobile guy. He has been an active member and thought leader in the global mobile community since the late nineties. His dream is to make the web mobile.
Jon Arne is a developer by trade who believes that making the end user happy is the key to success. He is dedicated to building innovative technology that achieves an optimal user experience.
Jon Arne is also an occasional writer, blogger, speaker and book reviewer.
Moving from one image for all kinds of devices to the common one-size-per-form-factor approach is definitely a step in the right direction. The downside is that, from a performance perspective, the approach is too general. There is more juice to be squeezed. However, from a development and maintenance perspective, it might make sense because three image sizes, or breakpoints, are manageable. In this article, Jon Arne Sæterås will look closely at how well the one-size-per-form-factor approach really works and how you can use smart content delivery networks to improve image performance.
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Developers have no reason not to explore Client Hints. The key benefits are more maintainable responsive image tags, fewer image bytes transferred and, ultimately, happier end users. In this article, Jon Arne Sæterås will focus on how to address responsive images issues, with a little help from the web server and Client Hints, the new way for the browser to request images with specific properties.
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A responsive website is not automatically a mobile-friendly website. Modern Web development should be about finding the right balance between server-side and client-side implementation. Today, Jon Arne Sæterås will use a real-life project that his company is working on, with real requirements and pain points, as a reference.
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