Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images
Responsive Images have been the hot topic over the past few months, this is a technique to get past the issue of cropping editorially important images.
The practice of implementing responsive images is still in its infancy. We’ve seen a lot of ideas and suggestions for how it should be done and we’re bound to see a lot more.
Today we’re going to look at a fascinating little framework that allows you to not only automatically resize your images when the viewport changes, but also crop the images with a specific important focal point in mind. Amazingly enough, it does all this with pure CSS. Read on to see how it works.
An excerpt from Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images
