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by Panino 1329 days ago
You can also use the picture tag to serve different images based on the browser's dimensions, to serve the best content and fast. So people with a TV get a wide image while a phone gets a small version, for example. The browser itself makes the choice and GETs the image from a list in the picture tag.

This could also conceivably be used for user tracking purposes as a way to determine without javascript the user's browser window setting. (I assume CSS can do this too.)