Magicology

One of the more persistent issues is dealing with images. Resizing an image down to fit a smaller screen does work, but it’s a massive performance hit if your user is having to download a 1000px image to display on her 480px screen. Even if they’re on a super-fast WiFi connection, it makes no sense downloading 1000s of pixels if you can only display a fraction of that.

There have been several solutions posted and proposed around the internet but I’ve come up with a pretty humble one that you could use right away.