[css4-images] Type hinting in image()

background: image('whatever.webp', 'whatever.png');

Currently the browser would download whatever.webp even if it doesn't
support it. Could image-tags be extended to allow type hinting? Eg...

background: image(image/webp 'whatever.webp', 'whatever.png');

...where the browser wouldn't make a request for whatever.webp if it
didn't accept the image/webp type, similar to how @font-face uses
format().

Alternatively (as Tab's mentioned) there could be a @image rule
similar to @font-face, with a format/type function, but that may be
more verbose than necessary.

As an aside, what's preventing image-set() behaviours being merged
into image(), or vice versa?

Jake.

Received on Wednesday, 2 January 2013 11:10:09 UTC