High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed

Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; What This Book Isn't; Navigating This Book; Why We Wrote This Book; Acknowledgments; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. The Case for Performance; What About Mobile Apps?; Speed Matters; Do Images Impact the Speed of Websites?; Lingering Challenges; Part I. Image Files and Formats; Chapter 2. The Theory Behind Digital Images; Digital Image Basics; Sampling; Image Data Representation; Color Spaces; Additive Versus Substractive; Color Profiles; Alpha Channel.