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Talk Summary You might have read some tutorials or articles explaining the importance of images and how to optimize them to deliver a great experience to your users. But does this work really translate into wins for your company? In this talk, you see real-world examples of the positive impact…

Everyone is a content producer today – from the largest publishing house and entertainment studio, down to the smallest eCommerce store, corporate website or personal blog. If content is the lifeblood of your website or application, images and videos form the heart that makes it tick and creates an emotional…

Lossy image compression is a great way to reduce the file size of an image, which helps to improve the performance of your website or app and cut bandwidth costs. And, if it goes well, nobody can tell the difference. If it goes well… When lossy compression does not go…

Shortcut to Cloudinary’s conclusion [Author’s Note:] This article is inspired by the work of José Manuel Pérez. A lot of the information presented here appeared, in one form or another, in a talk Perez gave at Render 2017 in Oxford, England.

As developers of web apps, you often need to let users upload files to your app – mainly images and videos. You want the upload interface you provide to offer an intuitive user experience, including the ability to drag & drop multiple media files, preview thumbnails of selected images and…

This talk was given at DevoxxUK by Jon Sneyers Talk Summary Images are a crucial part of any website or app. In this talk we’ll give a brief history of image formats for the web, discussing both the universally supported GIF, JPEG, and PNG formats and some of the…

Media makes up the majority of today’s website content. While it makes websites more interesting for visitors, media presents challenges because these images and videos are more difficult to store, deliver and manipulate on-the-fly to suit any given situation. One particularly challenging topic is storage. Traditionally – before the cloud…

Talk Summary It took nearly four years, four proposed standards, the formation of a community group, and a funding campaign to pay for development, but we finally got what we’ve been clamoring for—a solution for responsive images baked into browsers. Now the hard work begins. Jason Grigsby is co-founder…

How you present the content of your website can be just as important as the content itself. The images you display need to conform to the graphic design of your site, and every image needs to fit within a predefined size. Although that may be simple enough to achieve when…