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Finally, true responsive images are becoming a reality on the web — in pure HTML, without convoluted hacks. The picture element and a couple of new attributes for the img element are behind a flag in Chromium 37 and shipping in Chromium 38 (so coming soon in Opera), in Firefox Nightly and are being implemented in WebKit (although it remains to be seen if Apple will ship it in the next version of Safari). The new picture element can be verbose and confusing, because it solves a range of use cases. To help you match your requirements to the responsive image syntax, we’ve prepared this article full of examples.

It’s nearly two years since I suggested a picture element as a strawman proposal as a way to solve the problem of responsive images, so let’s have a look at how we’re doing.