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Last active December 1, 2019 15:38
@2x LESS CSS Mixin
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* I converted the SCSS mixin to LESS for the awesome coders like myself in response to a blog post on 37Signals - http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3271-easy-retina-ready-images-using-scss
*
* Update: 2014-08-04 - Updated a long-standing bug where retina images were shown no matter what in the first background-image property.
* - Updated retina media query to be more reliable ()
* Update: 2013-11-13 - Picked up another technique thanks to reading this post from Tyler Tate, auto-fill in the second filename for the retina image, http://tylertate.com/blog/2013/06/11/retina-images-using-media-queries-and-LESS-CSS.html
* Update: 2013-04-16 - Have recently found a few use cases when using a retina pattern from Subtle Patterns on the <body>, this has come in handy
* Update: 2013-04-05 - Some research in the Wordpress Core(http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22238#comment:5) was pointed out that some tests may be redundant (Thanks @kbav) so I've cleaned these up
* Update: 2012-12-29 - U