Update and rename RICG-newsletter-2015-09-17.md to RICG-newsletter-2015-09-28.md

Author: eeeps

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+# Eventful
+
+What a month. Personally, I went to Germany to speak (!) at SmashingConf (!!!). Never did I think an interest in respimg would take me to a medieval hall, half a world away, to tell hundreds of people how to do their jobs. But! It did! And I drank bier and ate würst and met heroes and made friends. It was as wonderful as it was surreal.
+
+And I actually had a newsletter all written in the Frankfurt Flughafen, ready to fire off as soon as I got home, but by the time I got there the RICG had won a pair of [Net Awards](https://thenetawards.com), necessitating some re-writes.
+
+- [Best Collaborative Project](https://twitter.com/yoavweiss/status/644982406211063808)
+- [Best New Web Technology](https://twitter.com/yoavweiss/status/644984378045673472)
+
+Feels good, man. To the links!
+
+## Edge implements `picture`
+
+That was quick. Edge version 10547 [supports `picture` and `sizes`][edge_picture].
+
+This means that (with a single, hopefully-soon-remedied [exception][safari]) every current version of every desktop browser now supports the full suite of responsive image features.
+
+Oh, and the Edge team will [probably][edge_image-set] implement `image-set()`, too.
+
+[edge_picture]: https://dev.modern.ie/platform/changelog/desktop/10547/
+[safari]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116963
+[edge_image-set]: https://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/cssimageset/
+
+
+## Core Competency
+
+The energy (and consistency!) behind the respimg-in-WordPress team is a joy to behold.
+
+They [pushed a new plugin release last week][wp_v25], v2.5, which, among other things, brings respimg support to images published before the plugin was installed using output filters.
+
+This release takes them one step closer to their large goal: [bringing respimg functionality to WordPress core][joe_wp].
+
+A very large website (anybody know who?) deployed `x` descriptors this month and [doubled the current level of usage overnight](https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/523): `x` descriptors are now used on ~1% of Chrome pageviews. That’s a very big deal, but `w`s hitting WP-Core might an order-of-magnitude bigger.
+
+[wp_v25]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ricg-responsive-images/changelog/
+[joe_wp]: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/05/responsive-images-feature-plugin-update/
+
+
+## Terriffic Tutorials
+
+Mat, Yoav, and the good people at Akamai collaborated on a pair of whiteboard-style respimg [tutorial][mat_vid] [videos][yoav_vid]. They’re fast-paced and accessible; the visual metaphors surprise and delight. Watch!
+
+Jake Archibald had a respimg “[epiphany][jake_ri]” recently — “I’m writing it all down before I forget everything.” His post conveys a a ton of information extremely economically, and it’s somehow personable and digestible, too. Everything that you need to know about the syntax in a pretty-short blog post. Read!
+
+Finally — my interest in Client Hints still far outpaces my expertise, so I learned a lot from [this article][ilya_ch] by Mr. Client Hints himself, Ilya Grigorik. Automate!
+
+[mat_vid]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJLl6MSHDr4
+[yoav_vid]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgQ0LGRnR8
+[jake_ri]: https://jakearchibald.com/2015/anatomy-of-responsive-images/
+[ilya_ch]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/automating-resource-selection-with-client-hints
+
+## Grab Bag
+
+- Picturefill 3 should be out of beta [imminently][pf3_rc1].
+- Understanding and communicating how an adaptable image will adapt within a responsive design is hard. Kevin Mack and Tim Vonderloh gave [a presentation][cropping] at the Columbus Web Group about re-using the concepts and language of print (where variability comes from imperfect processeses) to respimg (where the variability happens *by design*).
+- Last and maybe actually least, Facebook blogged about their [cover photo optimization efforts][cover_photos]. The post doesn’t mention respimg, per-se, but it does contain a lot of insight into how Facebook actually goes about making, managing, and delivering images efficiently at Facebook-scale.
+
+[pf3_rc1]: https://twitter.com/respimg/status/641311961171533824
+[cropping]: https://twitter.com/nicetransition/status/637345391910916096
+[cover_photos]: https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technology-behind-preview-photos/
+
+Tschüs!
+—eric