- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:39:26 -0000
- To: public-html-admin@w3.org
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:30:29 -0000, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote: > On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 11:59, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I do wonder whether reusing <source> is a good idea or whether it >> should just be something different for images... >> > > I wondered the same. But advice I got from different people was to resue > existing elements instead of inventing new ones. > It seems to me (speaking personally rather than for Opera) that conceptually there is no difference between <source> that chooses a source file for <video>/ <audio> depending on a media query, and a mechanism that chooses a source file for a responsive image element depending on a media query. So it feels to me that minting a new element for authors to get to grips with because of implementation/ specification complexity violates the priority of constituencies. (It may, however, factor into a browser vendor's decision to implement or not. Did the author of the Chromium implementation find it harder to re-use <source>?) -- Bruce Lawson Open standards evangelist Developer Relations Team Opera http://dev.opera.com
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