RE: Responsive images meet-up in Paris

FTR there is a meeting report of this meet-up available at
http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2013/09/18/paris-responsive-images-meetup/

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Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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From: Yoav Weiss [mailto:yoav@yoav.ws]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 4:07 PM
To: public-html@w3.org
Cc: mcaceres@mozilla.com; Dominique Hazael-Massieux; Robin Berjon
Subject: Responsive images meet-up in Paris

The Responsive Images Community Group, the W3C, and Mozilla would like to invite members of the HTML-WG to a meet-up to discuss a path forward for responsive images. We hope the meeting can take place on the 10th of September in Paris at the Mozilla offices (just before the CSS WG meeting, which starts on the 11th). So far we have confirmations from Apple, Adobe, Google, and Opera.

The purpose of the meet-up is to discuss the current proposals, assess the obstacles to their implementations, and build momentum behind the problem space.

A little more detail:

For the last couple of years, various folks have been working towards finding a way to bring  responsive images to the Web, with significant interest from Web developers. Although we now have 3 proposals on the table (srcset [1], <picture> [2] and client-hints [3]), we've had trouble getting sufficient momentum behind browser implementations that would let the market decide which solutions fulfill the use cases most effectively.

In the mean time, Web developers have had to make due with custom polyfills which often prevent browsers from loading the image resources until after the DOM was (at least partially) loaded and Javascript on the page has run. This directly hinders the performance work browser engineers have done over the years to optimize resource loading, and get requests on the wire as soon as possible, according to their priority. That leaves developers with the dilemma "Do we stall the image load, or download unnecessary image data which will slow down the overall load time and inflate the user's bills?"

Proposed agenda:

1. Introduction to each of the proposed solutions.
2. Implementors feedback on the solutions
3. Overlap among solutions
4. Next steps


Space is fairly limited, so let us know whether you'll be able to attend as soon as you can. Thanks!
Yoav Weiss
RICG

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/w3c-srcset/
[2] http://picture.responsiveimages.org/
[3] https://github.com/igrigorik/http-client-hints