Re: Title of the spec may cause heartache

The double download issue should only be an issue while the browsers catch up with the correct implementation.

I think it would be remiss to exclude this from any CMS development causing issues further down the line to retrospectively reimplement any images on existing sites.

As for Jason's original post, yes absolutely this has been an issue when explaining picture.... but not picture.

" it's picture but without the picture element but with srcset and sizes..... Yes it's the same proposal. No, it's a different approach. No you don't need the picture tag. I know I know it's called picture but you don't..... ahhh forget it."

Thanks for writing that post, I'll be sure to circulate in this weeks newsletter and make a point about any confusion.

Justin

> On 23 Sep 2014, at 07:43, Attiks <attiks@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't want to spoil it, but if you use an img with src and srcset, the image (src) will be prefetched by most browsers, resulting in 2 downloads, we faced this problem implementing a simple image formatter for Drupal. We decided to switch back to using the picture tag with just 1 source tag.
> 
> Regardless of the above, you are right, if img + srcset can be used, use it
> 
> 
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>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:24 AM, John Albin Wilkins <john@albin.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for making the distinction clearer, Jason!
>> 
>> Your post has kicked off a good discussion in the Drupal issue queue. We currently have the old-style, picture element-only implementation in our Drupal 8 alpha release software and need to make sure we get the 75% use-case of srcset+sizes implemented now before the official 8.0 release. https://www.drupal.org/node/2334387
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>>  - John
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>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Christopher Schmitt <schmitt@christopher.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks for writing this, Jason!
>>> 
>>> C.
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Jason Grigsby <jason@cloudfour.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Odin Hørthe Omdal <odinho@opera.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've very seldomly seen any article mentioning responsive images saying
>>>>> that "you almost always want srcset+sizes, sometimes if you really want
>>>>> you can *add* media".
>>>> 
>>>> Done. 
>>>> http://blog.cloudfour.com/dont-use-picture-most-of-the-time/
>>>> 
>>>> Was working on that article when I raised the issue on this list. Wanted to check to see if I was the only one with this concern before I finished it. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> John Albin Wilkins
>> john@albin.net
>> @JohnAlbin, etc.
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