We'll kick off the New Year by focusing on a topic that sparked a lot of interest after viewing the results of our feedback form: Responsive Web Design and Web Performance, more specifically "Responsive Images".
I am pleased to announce that David Newton will be the speaker for our January meetup covering the front-end piece.
Topic: Responsive Images
Dave will be speaking about the web’s hunger for more, bigger, and higher-resolution images, and the performance problem this creates. He’ll describe some different responsive image solutions, both current and proposed, and give an update on the process to standardize these. Finally, he’ll offer tips on how developers can implement responsive images now, to improve the performance of their sites.
About the speaker:
David Newton [1] is a full-stack web developer, currently working in a research program at St. Michael’s Hospital, who strongly believes in making web content accessible and usable. This goal has made Dave passionate about web standards, responsive design, progressive enhancement, accessibility guidelines, and web performance. Since October 2012 he has been a member of the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group [2], and is a co-editor of their Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images [3].
