Re: Feedback on Responsive Images Extension

On 4 September 2012 23:03, Mathew Marquis <mat@matmarquis.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Anselm Hannemann wrote:
>
> We had this discussion a couple of months ago in the W3C community group. I
> started it with the same intends as Andrew but after all it we came to the
> resolution that it's not what picture is thought for.
> If you define a picture-element you will most likely link to one image. This
> image crop/color/properties can vary but not the image meaning / content
> itself. If you want the meaning / content to change, just use a
> server-technology or JavaScript to properly change the source and alt. But
> it's no use-case for the picture-element.
>
>
> Agreed: this is a case better solved by way of JavaScript or server-side UA
> detection. If the subject matter cannot be accurately described by a single
> `alt` attribute ( or additional descriptive markup, as discussed previously
> ), it is a disparate set of images and not a case I feel we should account
> for with `picture`.
>

I guess my question would be how does someone specify a 'null' image
then i.e. have an image a certain breakpoints but no image at others.

Resorting to JS to fix this seems the 'wrong' way to go to me

Cheers

Andy

Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:18:20 UTC