- From: Austin Hammer via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:33:32 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Engineer at Airbnb here. We push the limits on quality and bandwidth for images and we find media queries not specific enough for more complex layouts (grids that flow based on container, masonry rtc) and it would be great to have a declarative syntax that lets us get specific about the container so we can "right size" an image, because ultimately, thats what an image often fills - a container, rarely a screen. Media queries are blunt tools and we need a scalpel not a hammer. I wonder if there is some world where we can expand upon the picture source sets for container queries that strikes a balance between performance (preload scanner) and right sizing images (for quality, bandwidth, and art direction). We attempted to solve this at the JS or service worker layer and found it needs to be solved declaratively at the browser level. Let me know if there are any questions about our use cases. -- GitHub Notification of comment by austinh Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5889#issuecomment-3921841129 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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