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Re: New responsive images proposal

From: Brendan Long <self@brendanlong.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:57:10 -0600
Message-ID: <5245F126.1080306@brendanlong.com>
To: public-html@w3.org
On 09/27/2013 02:24 PM, Anselm Hannemann wrote:
> Brendan, Jukka, please have a look at this thread where your topic has
> been discussed already:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/thread.html#msg137 (in
> particular: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/0145.html +following).

In case anyone else is wondering, the reason using CSS is a bad idea is
that it would put browsers in a tricky situation where they'd need to
either:

  * Wait for all CSS to be downloaded and parsed before starting image
    downloads, making page loads slower.
  * Pre-fetch images while downloading and parsing CSS, potentially
    wasting bandwidth.


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