- From: David Newton <david@davidnewton.ca>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:14:55 -0400
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mathew Marquis <mat@matmarquis.com>, public-respimg@w3.org
Does it have to be a website? Isn't ePub basically HTML? It might be far simpler to find cases of people optimizing images for ePub viewing on the Kindle. On 2012-10-25, at 3:02 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 19:54, Mathew Marquis wrote: > >> >> 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. > Again, this goes without saying :) >> 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. > > Yes please. >> >>> * 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. > Are there any sites specifically built for users with visual impairments? >> >> 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. > > Again, no disagreement on the fundamentals. However, the powers that be are asking explicitly for direct evidence of this in the wild: > > To quote Hixie [1]: > "Is this a real use case or a theoretical one? Until we didn't support it, > nobody once mentioned that it was a use case they cared about -- they only > mentioned dimensions as being the issue." > > If I can't show Hixie that we have at least 1 website, then I can't reasonably expect him to accept this use case. > > [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-September/037146.html > -- > Marcos Caceres > http://datadriven.com.au > > > >
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