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In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss Google’s AMP project for Accelerated Mobile Page loading, and what it means for WordPress. They also go in-depth on WordPress’s upcoming core support for handling responsive images.
Topics & Links
Google’s AMP
Responsive Images (starts at 35 minutes in)
As an aside re responsive images and performance there’s scope for the WP implementation to go a little deeper – double size images with high compression are often small enough not to be a problem and still look good on retina displays:
http://silev.org/test/Retina-resize.html
https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/compressive-images.html