I understand your issue. There is another way to look at it though. If we are using a high-dpi display to look at photos that are originally small on the website (or… icons!), in that case it would make a difference.
For me, it depends on the website. Give me some time and for the next release, I will add a settings to avoid the mobiles to get any retina images 🙂
I don’t know any way to make the photos originally small. The wordpress responsive theme just scales the images down. So they already are high dpi just from the scaling itself on small screen. So I figure if the retina version could be turned off on small displays it would probably be about right, unless wordpress makes a way to send smaller original images to small screens. It might be because I use large 1250px medium size images that is causing problems.
Yes it would definitely be easier for you and this kind of theme. I will add the option 🙂
Thanks, I using a version I modified of the wordpress twentytwelve theme. That is the way they do it now is just scale the images and container width to fit the device. I wish they would add an option by default to allow smaller images to be served instead of just scaling. I was looking at the Hammy plugin that does just that, but I don’t think you could use it along with retina2x, let me know if that is incorrect.
Scaling is the default, yeah, and it’s actually not a bad solution. A plugin has better to handle it than the themes I think. The Hammy plugin seems great for that, but I am not sure it works with WP Retina 2x, and I guess it depends on the Retina method used as well.
I let a message on the Hammy forum to ask for details: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/retina-compatibility?replies=1. Our 2 plugins should be compatible if they aren’t yet 🙂
Hammy claims that it will serve retina images itself, but I looked through all the documentation and couldn’t find any way to enable that. I think maybe you can manually do it, but it doesn’t work like your plugin where it automatically creates and displays the retina size images when needed. Yes a combination of the two plugins would be awesome.
I don’t think it would, so I wonder what it is doing exactly. Let’s see when he replies to my support thread 🙂
I was wondering if there was any progress on turning off retina for small devices. The other things we were discussing would be nice, but just for now a way to disable the plugin for small devices would be great. Thanks again.
I am still thinking and wondering where I will do it 🙂 I can do it easily with the HTML Rewrite method and the Client-Side method, but not with the Server-Method. Which one are you using right now?
I’m just using client side because I’m using Cloudflare. So that would be good with me.
New WP Retina 2x sent to you. Waiting for your feedback 🙂
Hello Jordy – I would agree with the original poster, might it be possible to optionally disable serving @2x images to iPhones5 and other mobile devices?
I’m using HTML-Rewrite Mode. I like this mode better that client-side (retina.js) mode becasue the corresponding @2x images are served straight-away if applicable, rather than subsequently replacing them on the client as retina.js does.
In my case, I have a responsive site and I’m finding that HTML-Rewrite mode serves normal-res images to an iPhone5 when viewing the site’s home (blog) page. But it serves the @2x retina images when opening a single post to the full post page. It would be great to be able to force normal-res images always to iPhone5 and other mobile devices, the rationale being snappier page load may be preferable on mobile (and normal-res images still look nice on phones).
Great plugin! Best regards.
Hello WPMonkeyATL. I just added the option to the plugin. Please look forward to the coming release, it will be included 🙂 It will be available at the same time as the new WP release.
