Re: Print, monochrome, and high-contrast

On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote:

> Hi all, 
> We are still lacking any evidence that show images have been adapted for the following three scenarios/use cases:
> 
> * Print

Where there isn’t currently any decent solution to a serving up screen/print appropriate images on a single page we can’t necessarily point to anything identical, but it’s not hard to see where a site like Flickr or SmugMug would be able to make use of this. I’m certain I’ve seen sites that offer reasonably-sized images alongside links to high-resolution images for the sake of printing. I’m hoping others chime in here; I’ll search, in the meantime.

> * monochrome 
> * high-contrast

Likewise, it’s tough to reliably detect when a user is in high-contrast mode as things stand now, so we might be hard-pressed to find an example of image swapping in the wild—which is not to say they don’t exist, but I don’t know of any. 

I’ve mostly been using this and “monochrome” as examples of the inherent flexibility of the media query approach. I think the important thing is to make sure that concept is well represented somehow.

> 
> As per our document:
> http://responsiveimagescg.github.com/ri-usecases/#print,-monochrome,-and-high-contrast
> 
> Without having any actual proof that there are at least a few sites in the wild that have been designed with, for instance, the Kindle specifically in mind - it's difficult to justify use case 4.4.
> 
> -- 
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
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Received on Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:55:28 UTC