One thing that seems to come up from time to time when talking about SVG is the apparent lack of a mechanism to make certain size specific adjustments. Typical use case is icon design, where you want to make sure the outline of the icon you're creating is always 1px, regardless of the icon being 16, 32 or 64 pixels in size. While at the SVG Open conference last week, I investigated how this problem could be solved, and found out that you can do this by using media queries inside the SVG file. Different widths set on the img tag pointing to the SVG file then will trigger different max-width/min-width media queries to be triggered. I've presented my findings during the lightning talks session at SVG Open, and have turned the talk into a YouTube video, which you can watch below.

If you’re going to hide a content image, you’re not going to be able to do it by setting display:none. I recommend using a Javascript or server-side based approach instead.

If you want to hide a background image, your best bet is to hide the parent element. If you can’t do that, then use a cascade override (like test five above) and set the background-image to none when you want it hidden.

For swapping background images, define them both inside of media queries.

RT @lyzadanger: Oops. I just blogged on @cloudfour again, this time about em-based media queries:

Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace this technique, we're not only seeing a lot of innovation but the emergence of clear patterns as well. I cataloged what seem to be the most popular of these patterns for adaptable multi-device layouts.

RT @brad_frost: Responsive Navigation Patterns: an in-depth look into responsive web design navigation techniques

RT @brad_frost: "The largest and most exciting part of the design process now happens in the browser" great read by ...

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