- From: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:45:52 +0100
- To: public-html-admin@w3.org
Le 04/02/2013 13:45, Marcos Caceres a écrit : > > > > > On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 12:39, Bruce Lawson wrote: > >> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:30:29 -0000, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto: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. > Correct. The problem is adding srcset to <source> because the attribute then it becomes <picture> specific (i.e., <video|audio><source srcset> is meaningless, and may be confusing because it works in one context (picture) but not others (video|audio)). I don't like that personally, unless we are going to make a case for responsive video and responsive audio :) That already exists and that's called HLS, Smooth Streaming, HDS or MPEG-DASH. Cyril > >> (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 > > -- Cyril Concolato Maître de Conférences/Associate Professor Groupe Multimedia/Multimedia Group Telecom ParisTech 46 rue Barrault 75 013 Paris, France http://concolato.wp.mines-telecom.fr/
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