What do we do with Wikipedia?

Three months ago, I was looking for some icons to use in our projects. I
noticed that Wikipedia had already output <img srcset> and I tweeted
"Just realized Wikipedia supports srcset="". Nice Job!".

I just realized an hour ago that this feature is not even on in any of
the shipped browser by default (it is under a runtime flag in Chrome),
and I yelled "Fuck!".

I am in the process of reading the srcN spec, and I noticed that folks
seem to prefer it to srcset in general. What do we do?

  1) Let it be (ie. do nothing, which means that it adds a lot more
     validation errors if srcN obsoletes srcset[1], but I doubt many
     care.).
  2) Tell Wikipedia to stop.
  3) Amend the srcN spec to include srcset as deprecated feature.

Thoughts? Pushing a browser feature by contributing to MediaWiki seems
like an odd idea IMHO.

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41346


== See Also ==

The changeset that enables srcset in MediaWiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/24115/

High-density display issues (tracking) xhdpi hdpi Retina high-resolution
HiDPI.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32101


Cheers,
Kenny
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Received on Monday, 21 October 2013 14:27:26 UTC