Re: @type attribute on <source> elements

• From: Aaron Gustafson <aaron@easy-designs.net>
• Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:09:38 -0400
• To: David Clements <huperekchuno@googlemail.com>
• Cc: "Nathanael D. Jones" <nathanael.jones@gmail.com>, "public-respimg@w3.org" <public-respimg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CALWPYzELx5PRNMb=+UiSrEay+z11X_bpxx189giUHUF8MdsRPg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, David Clements
<huperekchuno@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I've been pondering this as a background process for the past hour or so...
>
> I think I'm seeing the point - by having browser skip an unsupported MIME on
> a type attribute it avoids unnecessary HTTP requests and possibly even
> broken images whilst allowing developers to specify modern MIME types with
> JPG/PNG/GIF fallbacks?


Yeah, that’s the gist of it.

Cheers,

Aaron

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Aaron Gustafson
Principal
Easy Designs, LLC
@aarongustafson

Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 13:10:30 UTC