Re: [respimg] a perfect responsive solution should not tamper the HTML syntax with too much repeating information from Marcos Caceres on 2013-10-28 (public-respimg@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:42:57 +0000
To: public-respimg@w3.org, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
Message-ID: <etPan.526eb0a9.5bd062c2.ca4@MacPro.local>

On October 28, 2013 at 6:35:47 PM, Larry Garfield (larry@garfieldtech.com) wrote:
>
>On 10/24/13 6:38 AM, Carsten Berggreen wrote:
>> I have worked with optimizing my CMS and websites/campaigns since 1997,
>> and for the past 11 years in my own company.
>>
>> My solution to responsive images is to the the SERVER do the tricks.
>
>Which breaks down as soon as you don't have a server. Local
>development, template development, eBooks (ePub, remember, is HTML)...
>you very often don't have a server to do logic, responsive or otherwise.

Sometimes you have a server, but no control over it. Anyway, it’s pretty clear we need solutions that can handle both the online and offline/declarative use cases. Client Hints (CH) + src-n are good fits here and work is currently happening in CH repo to make sure they play nicely together.

Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 18:45:22 UTC