Retina revolution
Looking for a way to embed raster images for both low- and high-DPI displays, this developer had some good results with using a high resolution with more JPEG compression than you would use normally.
He argues that the image looked great on both low- and high-DPI displays. Also the compression artifacts were now so small that they are not as noticable then when an 1:1 image is highly compressed.
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